Contempt Quotes

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

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.

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

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

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.

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.

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

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.

Contempt mates well with pity.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

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.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

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

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

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.

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