Contempt Quotes

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.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.