Contempt Quote by Georges Duhamel Download Open image “It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.” — Georges Duhamel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Happiness Happy Joy Men Strange
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor... — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong. — Shailer Mathews Copy Share Image
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals,...is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization...it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.” — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot by all and despised, accepting injustice, contempt and mockery; unless he undergoes all these things with joy for the sake of the Lord, not claiming any kind of human reward whatsoever - glory or honor… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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