Calumny Quote by Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

— H. L. Mencken

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

— Neal A. Maxwell

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

— Henry Fielding

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

— William Shakespeare

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

— Margaret Chase Smith

One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

— Anderson Silva

I had no taste for defeat — much less victory — without a fight.

— Yukio Mishima

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

— Horace

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

— Robert Harris

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

— Sophie Swetchine

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to…

— Benjamin Franklin

And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly…

— John Osborne