Quotes and Sayings About Contempt
-
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
-- Alexander Lebed -
And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged...
-- Andrzej Szczypiorski -
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
-- ApuleiusSource : "On the God of Socrates". Ch. 4,
-
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.
-- Archibald Rutledge -
-
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
-- Barbara TuchmanSource : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House
-
If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.
-- Betty Furness -
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
-- Brendan Behan -
-
To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
-- Chief Seattle -
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
-- Dorothy Allison -
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
-
Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
-- George R. R. Martin -
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
-- Harold Pinter -
-
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
-- Isaac Barrow -
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
-- Jean Rostand -
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
-- Jennifer Pahlka -
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
-- John Ralston Saul -
-
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
-- Joseph Addison -
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
-- Joseph Joubert -
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
-- Joseph Priestley -
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
-- Julien Benda -
-
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
-- Khalil Gibran -
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
-- Kjell Magne Bondevik -
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
-- Lester Bangs -
I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.
-- Martin Freeman -
-
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.
-- Maureen Dowd