Contempt Quotes

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

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.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

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.

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 confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

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!

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

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.

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

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.