Famous Quotes
135 Quotations with Contempt.
- 61. Charles Maurice De Talleyrand: Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great ma ...
- 62. Author Unknown: Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
- 63. George Eliot: Might, could, would -- they are contemptible auxiliaries.
- 64. Raoul Vaneigem: Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; ne ...
- 65. William Blake: Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
- 66. Marcus Annaeus Seneca: Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
- 67. John Milton: O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chai ...
- 68. John Milton: O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chai ...
- 69. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne: Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of ...
- 70. J. P. Senn: Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contemp ...
- 71. J. P. Senn: Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contemp ...
- 72. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire: Our contemptible species is so made that those who walk on a commonly used path ...
- 73. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; ...
- 74. William Hazlitt: Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. H ...
- 75. Jean Baudrillard: Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profoun ...
- 76. Benjamin Franklin: Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
- 77. James Baldwin: Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the t ...
- 78. Jean Rostand: Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as ...
- 79. Eric Hoffer: Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
- 80. Samuel Johnson: So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backwa ...