Contempt Quotes

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Some evils are cured by contempt.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.