Contempt Quotes

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Isaac Barrow

Men, Mean, Strange

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Human, Terrorism, Dignity

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Martin C. Smith

Attitude, Might, Call

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
Carl Bernstein

Truth, Reality, Real

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke

End, Pride, Reverence

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
Aleksandr Lebed

Both, Left, Equal

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Joseph Priestley

Respect, Others, Both

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
John Hall

Sympathy, Poor, Write

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison

Class, Background, Strengths

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
Emma Lazarus

Two, Hatred, Between

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
Emma Lazarus

Opinion, Touch, Treated

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
Jules Feiffer

Mother, Father, Opinions

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin

Age, Respect, Nothing

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
Harold Russell

Power, Democracy, Away

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Nance O'Neil

Art, Emotional, True

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
Paul Lazarsfeld

Politics, Votes, Breed

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!
Julius Rosenberg

Heart, Give, Tell

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