Contemptuous Quotes

Contemptuous Quote of the day

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so much emotion that he had to spill it out every window of the house.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That is the primary reason the paper may soon dissolve.