"Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue." — George R. R. Martin
"Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue."
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746 Quotes by George R. R. Martin
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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than…
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know…
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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good…
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are…
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about.…
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I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have…
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From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close…
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Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution…
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More Contempt Quotes
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one of 515 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the…
— Carl Bernstein
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
— Jello Biafra
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love.…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten…
— Lord Chesterfield
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
— Winston Churchill
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