Contempt Quotes

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

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.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

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.

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.

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

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.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.