Contempt Quotes
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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
All I ask the haters – is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences, it might come to resemble love.
Ben Lerner
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Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Stewart Udall -
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
Thomas Harris -
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
Seneca the Younger -
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