Scorn Quotes

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them out.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.

What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Let me arise and open the gate, to breathe the wild warm air of the heath, And to let in Love, and to let out Hate, And anger at living and scorn of Fate, To let in Life, and to let out Death.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn: Object of my implacable disgust.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.

That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth

I scorn you, scurvy companion.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.