135 Quotations with Contempt.
- 1. W. Somerset Maugham: He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever ...
- 2. Alice Miller: Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and ...
- 3. Albert Camus: The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and ...
- 4. Author Unknown: A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you con ...
- 5. Thomas Carlyle: True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contemp ...
- 6. Henry Bolingbroke: Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence in ...
- 7. J. William Galbraith: Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice ...
- 10. Jules Feiffer: I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's p ...
- 11. Finley Peter Dunne: An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
- 12. Aesop: Familiarity breed contempt.
- 13. Sophocles: I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever ...
- 14. William Shakespeare: If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon bett ...
- 15. Edmund Burke: When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, ...
- 16. Henry W. Fowler: Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before bec ...
- 17. Samuel Butler: The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- 18. Henry Ward Beecher: The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of ...
- 19. Apuleius: Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
- 20. Jean De La Bruyere: Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from ...
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