Disdain Quotes

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Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.