Contempt Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

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.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

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.

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.