Disdain Quotes

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles Lamb

Beauty, True, Through

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
William Shatner

Life, Marriage, Thoughts

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
William Congreve

Scorn, Alluring, Amiss

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Michelangelo

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
Bill Murray

Nothing, Anyone, Awards

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Pierre Corneille

After, Few, Won

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney

Crazy, Find, Whole

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
James Dyson

True, Boring, Whole

It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.
Eric Stoltz

Time, Respect, Fun

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
Robert Walpole

Afraid, Making, Efforts

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.
Phillip Noyce

Good, Real, Another

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.
Trent Lott

Forget, America, Cannot

With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.
Mitchell Hurwitz

Family, Society, Deep

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?
Thomas Hooker

Men, Mind, Become

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