Contempt Quotes

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

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 whatever.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.