Scorn Quotes
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To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.
Blaise Pascal
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True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
Tobias Smollett
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How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.
Charles Dickens
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I scorn you, scurvy companion.
William Shakespeare
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Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.
William Wordsworth
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
William Shakespeare
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Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.
George Wither
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He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
William Shakespeare
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Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
Terence McKenna
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A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
William Gifford
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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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While Otto ran here and there, carefully choosing places to urinate, I felt over every inch of my body the scratches of sexual abandonment, the danger of drowning in scorn for myself and nostalgia for him. I got up and went back along the path; I whistled again, and waited for Otto to return.
Elena Ferrante
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Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
Essie Summers