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Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude. -- Mario Cantone
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. -- Andre Maurois
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. -- John le Carre
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first. -- E. F. Schumacher
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. -- Sam Ervin
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are. -- Rosellen Brown
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. -- Betty Friedan
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848) -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them. -- Harriet Martineau
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. -- Christopher Hitchens
You really don't want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!" -- W. Somerset Maugham
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations. His recent statements have betrayed his openly contemptuous attitude toward American health care and out top-flight medical profession. His attitude is consistent with his revealed general attitude about America, which he denigrates every time he gets a chance, especially on foreign soil. -- David Limbaugh
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. -- Ian Frazier
The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see. -- John Ratzenberger
My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable. -- Mason Cooley
Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors. -- Jubal
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition. -- Edward Gibbon
A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively. -- Esther Meynell
If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm. -- J. D. Salinger
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. -- Holly Black
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki... -- Thomas Harris
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. -- E. L. Doctorow
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance. -- Franz Grillparzer
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. -- James A. Baldwin
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion. -- Richard Dawkins
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. -- James Salter
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive. -- Terry Eagleton
Rejoice in the prosperity of others. When you feel contemptuous, or even a twinge of jealousy, toward the accomplishments or life-styles of others, you are harboring negativity where love must reside. -- Wayne Dyer
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain. -- Kate Morton
To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates. -- Norman Mailer
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. -- Fulton J. Sheen

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