Contempt Quote by Lord Chesterfield Download Open image “Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never” — Lord Chesterfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Forgiveness
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Be convinced, that there are no persons so insignificant and inconsiderable, but may, some time or other, have it in their power to be… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have wronged myself so many times that I don't expect others to not wrong me. My weapon against being wronged is instant forgiveness. — Noble Yabi Copy Share Image
Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
People will always forgive you for being wrong - but they'll never forgive you for being right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As resolute as I feel about my convictions, if I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong, because I find it a rare… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Do we say that one must never willingly do wrong, or does it depend upon the circumstances? Is it true, as we have often… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over” — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster:… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I… — Lord Chesterfield 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
