"After having won a scepter, few are so……" — Pierre Corneille
"After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling."
More Disdain Quotes
- Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness… — Horace
- One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has… — Imagawa Sadayo
- No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance… — Paulo Freire
- The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let… — Fran Lebowitz
- If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want… — Hugh Prather
- To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood. — Maurice Maeterlinck
- I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains… — James A. Michener
- He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first… — Ludwig von Mises
- Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It… — Abraham Lincoln
- Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention.… — Louis Pasteur
- Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and… — Alexis Carrel
- With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this… — Karl Marx