Contempt Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Everything can be borne except contempt.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Scorn
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire 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
