Contempt Quotes

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.