Scorn Quotes

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

A little scorn is alluring.

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

True artists scorn nothing.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.