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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name. — Amos Bronson Alcott

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on. — Hans Kung

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being. — Nikolai Gogol

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

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. — Honore De Balzac

If we serve God, we must not disdain or shun any job, God will not use a lazy man — Sunday Adelaja

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

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever. — Horace

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

I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement. — Brene Brown

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

All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselves, through our disdain for what is easy. — Seneca.

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

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

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

The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, "Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear. — Ryan Lilly

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

Female academics at King's in the 1950s were treated with a formalized disdain that — Bill Bryson

Hatred and disdain do harm to the donor not the intended recipient ...
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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

We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain future now. — John F. Kennedy

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

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain. — Jim Crace

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

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. — Pat Metheny

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

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

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

Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility. — Joachim Peiper

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

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The monosyllable contained equal parts of surprise and disdain. — Robert Galbraith

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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ. — Tim LaHaye