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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

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

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. — Holly Black

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

No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware! — Dada Bhagwan

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

already imprisoned inside themselves. Prisons of hatred and self-contempt he recognised all too well. — Jo Nesbo

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

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything. — Harold Ramis

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

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. — Sophocles

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt. — Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom. — Sherry Argov

They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join. — Rick Perlstein

The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire

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

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. — Petrarch

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

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. — Jello Biafra

A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt. — Susan Sontag

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

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt. — Maureen Dowd

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. — Cato The Elder

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

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. — Gertrude Stein

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

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt. — Julie Klausner

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

I asked myself at the time: how is it that she is not astonished at herself, that she keeps her mouth closed, and expresses nothing of any wonderment? — Franz Kafka

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

In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip. (Job 12:5, ESV) — Job

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

The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition. — Adam Smith

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein

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

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. — Hannibal

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

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand. — Lord Byron

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

Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt. — Thomas Boswell

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

Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals. — Robin Hobb

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. — John Steinbeck

Most wise men, in their private sentiments, have ever treated hereditary right with contempt; yet — Thomas Paine