Contempt Quotes

Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.

The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives the

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.