Contempt Quotes
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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
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Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.
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I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
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Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
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Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.
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He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
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Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...
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It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
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Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
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It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
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He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down.” “Otherwise,” said Dr. Halse, “we will have you committed for contempt of court.” Ross bowed slightly. “I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.
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It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.
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Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.
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Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
