Contempt quotes:

Send

Familiarity breeds contempt. -- Aesop
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. -- Minna Antrim
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. -- William Shakespeare
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? -- Khalil Gibran
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. -- John Steinbeck
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. -- Toni Morrison
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy. -- Jean de la Bruyere
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. -- Albert Einstein
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. -- Alice Miller
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. -- Bertrand Russell
Contempt mates well with pity. -- Gloria Naylor
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue. -- George R. R. Martin
Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction. -- I. A. Richards
Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue. -- Steven Pressfield
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. -- H. L. Mencken
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. -- Edmund Burke
--
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure. -- Mason Cooley
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. -- Charles de Gaulle
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action. -- Thucydides
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. -- Joseph Joubert
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. -- William Hazlitt
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. -- Albert Einstein
--
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. -- Henry Bolingbroke
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute. -- Ann Coulter
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. -- Abraham Cowley
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. -- Dorothy Allison
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." -- Gordon S. Wood
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. -- Ambrose Bierce
Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will. -- James Lileks
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. -- Isaac Barrow
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. -- Samuel Johnson
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. -- John M. Gottman
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point. -- Chiang Kai-shek
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? -- Mitt Romney
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. -- Evelyn Waugh
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away. -- Matt Haig
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. -- Will Durst
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt -- Jane Austen
And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! -- Julius Rosenberg
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above. -- Edmund Burke
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. -- Cesar Chavez
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. -- Winston Churchill
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. -- Susie Orbach
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. -- John Gay
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. -- John Reed
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. -- Quentin Crisp
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. -- Carl Bernstein
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects. -- Emma Lazarus
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. -- Noam Chomsky
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings. -- Dallas Willard
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult. -- Henry Rollins
Familiarity breeds contempt. -- Aesop
I'm awash in self-contempt! -- Woody Allen
Tolerance is a placid contempt. -- Mason Cooley
Familiarity gives rise to contempt. -- Aesop
Familiarity seems to breed contempt -- Hunter S. Thompson
Only the contemptible fear contempt. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Indifference is the strongest contempt. -- Ha Jin
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. -- Mark Twain
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt. -- Eric Hoffer
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. -- Chaka Khan
Everything can be borne except contempt. -- Voltaire
To be too busie gets contempt. -- George Herbert
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Some evils are cured by contempt. -- George Herbert
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. -- Florence King
--
The universal religion - contempt for women. -- Andrea Dworkin
An Englishman fears contempt more than death. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Compassion is contempt with a human face. -- John McCarthy
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. -- Berthold Auerbach
Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt. -- Ravi Zacharias
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. -- Apuleius
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. -- Mason Cooley
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. -- Roy Hattersley
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. -- George Santayana
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt. -- Berthold Auerbach
Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. -- Philip K. Dick
Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace. -- William Shakespeare
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer. -- Brendan Behan
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. -- Benjamin Franklin
Valor is the contempt of death and pain. -- Tacitus
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world. -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. -- Miguel de Cervantes
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes. -- Paul Lazarsfeld
He that searches for praise will often find contempt. -- Norm MacDonald
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love. -- Herman Melville
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. -- Eric Hoffer
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals. -- Aleksandr Lebed
Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger. -- Mark Twight
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals. -- Aleksandr Lebed
The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth. -- Seneca
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. -- Marshall McLuhan
Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything. -- Harold Ramis
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. -- Stewart Udall
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. -- John Godfrey Saxe
Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt. -- Maureen Dowd
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. -- Lester Bangs
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it. -- Samuel Johnson
Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were. -- Mason Cooley
To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. -- Chief Seattle
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care. -- Jack Kevorkian

Send