Contempt Quotes

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt

Living, After, Poor

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.
William Hazlitt

Nature, Respect, Poetry

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison

Black, Why, Else

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Hope, Sometimes

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon

Best, May, Small

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Marshall McLuhan

Love, Hate, True

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Evelyn Waugh

Parents, May, After

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Austin O'Malley

God, Person, Wealth

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Toni Morrison

Nothing, Else, American

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Publilius Syrus

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp

Time, Live, Human

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle

Mystery, Prestige, Breeds

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Toni Morrison

Political, Hatred, Kids

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.
Michael Bloomberg

Thought, Books, Laws

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
Harold Pinter

Smile, Hands, View

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus

Past, Fallen, Influenced

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Edgar Rice Burroghs

Love, Anger, Hate

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim

Between, Often, Admiration

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
Claude Chabrol

Stupid, Why, Individual

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus

Men, Same, Equal

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.
Jon Crosby

Nothing, Saying, Through

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.
Jonathan Kozol

Great, True, Find

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Jean Rostand

Respect, Whom, Renown

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Lester Bangs

Audience, Ultimate, Sin

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
Jack Kevorkian

Smile, Looks, Enjoyment

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
Jack Kevorkian

Try, Ahead, Jail

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.
Neil LaBute

Sense, Guys, Fit

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Jack Kevorkian

Care, Honor, Cite

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
Mitch Daniels

Change, Nothing, Social

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