Contempt Quotes
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
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Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Indifference is the strongest contempt.
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She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.
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Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
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You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
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My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
