Famous Quotes
135 Quotations with Contempt.
- 21. Berthold Auerbach: Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
- 22. Jane Austen: In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared f ...
- 23. J. R. R. Tolkien: Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it bori ...
- 24. Alexander Hamilton: The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient ...
- 25. Unknown: Familiarity breeds contempt.
- 26. Mark Twain: Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in s ...
- 27. Albert Einstein: The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new cour ...
- 28. Albert Einstein: To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- 29. William Hazlitt: A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automat ...
- 30. Woodrow T. Wilson: A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered ...
- 31. John Gay: A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, ...
- 32. Agnes Repplier: A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be ...
- 33. William Hazlitt: A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides o ...
- 34. August J. Strindberg: Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
- 35. Minna Antrim: Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
- 36. Albert Guerard: Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
- 37. Marcus Annaeus Seneca: Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
- 38. William J. Galbraith: Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field ...
- 39. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absen ...
- 40. Austin O'Malley: God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it ...