Contempt Quotes

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

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.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

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.

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

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.

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.