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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
— Nadine Gordimer
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another.
— The Arbinger Institute
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt
— Eilian J. Richmond
Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.
— Christos Tsiolkas
It is so refreshing to be treated with contempt.
— Julianne Donaldson
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Where there is contempt/scornful rejection and slander, there wealth will not remain.
— Dada Bhagwan
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
— Berthold Auerbach
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
— Tacitus
Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
— Amanda Craig
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
— Alexander Smith
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
— Edmund Burke
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join.
— Rick Perlstein
Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
— Immanuel Kant
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
— Will Eisner
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
— E.F. Schumacherm
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.
— Florence King
Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
— George R R Martin
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
— St. Jerome
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
— Gore Vidal
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
— Marty Rubin
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
— Florence King
Here, brother, contempt is no use, even if he does despise Grushenka. He may despise her, but he still can't tear himself away from her.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,
— Hannah Arendt
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
— John Ralston Saul
That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.
— Brandon Sanderson
A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.
— James David Barber
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.
— Archibald Rutledge
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My compliments," Alek said slowly and evenly. "Your contempt was most convincing.""I am your servant. — Scott Westerfeld
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.
— Gordon H. Clark
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
— Jonathan Swift
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram's grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.
— Pawan Mishra
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please the one yields glory, and the other ease. — William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling
When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.
— Bob Horner
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
— Anthony Liccione
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
— George Santayana
Hat our contempt often hurls from us,We wish it our again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering,does become
The opposite of itself.. — William Shakespeare
To be too busie gets contempt.
— George Herbert
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
— Orson Scott Card
You want to have more,but can you really have more. — Pontius Joseph
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
— Noel Coward
No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
— G.K. Chesterton
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
— Andrea Dworkin
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.
— John M. Gottman
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.
— Matthew Henry
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
— Benjamin Franklin
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Everything can be borne except contempt.
— Voltaire
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
— Isaac Barrow
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.
— Charlaine Harris
I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all.
— John Steinbeck
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
— Joseph Priestley
Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.
— Christopher Hitchens
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
— James Martineau
Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
— John Osborne
