Contempt Quotes
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
Norm MacDonald
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
Seneca the Younger
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
William Hazlitt
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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
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Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Stewart Udall
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
Rick Moody