Contempt Quotes

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.

I've been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think, "Can't they tell? "—Nita, September 18, 1984

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.

A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.

It is the leader’s job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. “Model” the behaviors is key. “Do as I say” only breeds contempt from others.

It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me.

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow

Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.