Famous Quotes
135 Quotations with Contempt.
- 81. Author Unknown: Some evils are cured by contempt.
- 82. Plutarch: Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, "There ...
- 83. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
- 84. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
- 85. Friedrich Nietzsche: The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on ...
- 86. Carl Bernstein: The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misin ...
- 87. Carl Bernstein: The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misin ...
- 88. H. L. Mencken: The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
- 89. Charles Caleb Colton: The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our l ...
- 90. Lester Bangs: The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
- 91. Samuel Johnson: The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- 92. Pindar: There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, t ...
- 93. Henry Fielding: There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, ...
- 94. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contem ...
- 95. Herbert Spencer: There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is con ...
- 96. Abraham Cowley: This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too hig ...
- 97. William Hazlitt: Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
- 98. William Hazlitt: To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated wit ...
- 99. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into co ...
- 100. Marcus T. Cicero: We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more h ...