Contempt Quotes
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt -
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.
William Benton Clulow
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The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.
Andrew Roberts -
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
One who forced another was beneath contempt. One who needed to was despised.
Alice Borchardt -
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
Noel Coward -
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.
Michael Ignatieff -
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
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I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
Alexander Lebed -
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.
David Rice -
Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
William Hazlitt -
Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.
Michelle Malkin -
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
Isaac Watts -
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
Monica Edwards
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Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
Will Eisner -
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Cato the Elder -
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim -
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
Norm MacDonald
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Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.
Michael Shanks -
I think psychologically Margaret Thatcher is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.
Hilary Mantel -
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden -
We became more familiar with Bernard Leach, and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.
Warren MacKenzie