Scorn Quotes

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.