Disdain Quotes
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
— Melvin Van Peebles
I ain't eatin out in no Lawrenceville," said Earl with disdain
— Jesse Andrews
Any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred or disdain for others was illegitimate,
— Karen Armstrong
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile;
— Stacy Schiff
As the six, in file, passed into the poorhouse proper they clicked off glances of disdain with industrial precision.
— John Updike
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
— Francois Rabelais
Do not look down with disdain on what Christ spent so much to achieve for you.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.
— Tessa Dare
Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking?
— Will Wiles
Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.
— Natalie Tyler
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
— Jane Austen
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
— Ring Lardner
She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans.
— Lauren Willig
Isn't a sensitive soul simply a means of transforming a deficiency into proud disdain?
— Rabih Alameddine
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
— William Congreve
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications.
— Leon Foucault
It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
— Edward Young
Dakota started laughing. You wouldn't have anything back there to help me tame a punk-rock wild child with a disdain for cowboys, would you?
— Sara Humphreys
Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? — William Shakespeare
That is the natural disposition of the sex; to disdain those who adore them, and love those by whom they are abhorred.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character.
— Mary Jo Putney
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
— Khaled Hosseini
Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.
— Thomas Gray
Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.
— Iain M. Banks
She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.
— Elisa Albert
The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.
— Claire McCaskill
Hatred and disdain do harm to the donor not the intended recipient ... The Strength in Knowing
by I. Alan Appt — I. Alan Appt
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.
— J. K. Bharavi
It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.
— Colin Meloy
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
— Albert Schweitzer
Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
— Benjamin Franklin
Disdain is only as intense as similarity.
— Mark Helprin
I don't consider myself above the law, I consider myself above the principles. ~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
— Michelangelo
In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations.
— Herman Melville
Deep blue. She was beautiful, not merely pretty, but there was in her eyes the haughty disdain of a queen reprimanding a clumsy subject.
— Louis L'Amour
He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.
— Margaret Landon
Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...
— Michael Finkel
No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't
— Derek R. Audette
In his youth, Jon Connington had shared the disdain most knights had for bowmen, but he had grown wiser in exile.
— George R R Martin
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
— Robert Walpole
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I'm a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.
— Caitlin Crews
Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.
— Maximus The Confessor
I loathe the happiness of all these people who don't know they're unhappy.
— Pessoa, Fernando
Men are men." Whitebeard replied. "Dragons are dragons." Ser Jorah snorted his disdain. "How profund
— George R R Martin
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
— Philip Sidney
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
— Bill Murray
Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me — William Shakespeare
All his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
— Alan Hollinghurst
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.
— James Altucher
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
— Pierre Corneille
Some illiterates held writing in disdain; others seemed to have a superstitious reverence for the written word, as if it were some sort of magic.
— George R R Martin
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
— Amish Tripathi
Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.
— Thomas De Quincey
The love of money leads many humans to humiliate themselves but this isn't as bad as their disdain towards the poorest.
— Daniel Marques
Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.
— Gordy Slack
I swear I've seen it in the movies," Kit said. "Or maybe on TV." "Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?" said Ty with disdain.
— Cassandra Clare
Disdain was useful. It gave him a fixed sense of proportion, a rightfulness to which he could appeal, and feel secure.
— Eleanor Catton
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
— Laura Linney
In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.
— D. James Kennedy
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
