Contempt Quote by Gloria Naylor Download Open image “Contempt mates well with pity.” — Gloria Naylor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Disrespect Mates Pity Wells
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“2)"Even though this planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain.… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.” — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“I never dreamed that she meant lights. Sparkling. Shimmering. Waves of light. We could see them from the front of the cafe. Besides the… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much… — Gloria Naylor 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… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
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
