Contempt Quotes

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

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.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

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.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

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.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

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.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.