Contempt Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

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