Contempt Quotes
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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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Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.
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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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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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Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
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So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.
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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
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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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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
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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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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 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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Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.
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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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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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He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
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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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Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
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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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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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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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Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
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The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.
