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We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
— Marie De France
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
— Robert H. Jackson
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.[Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.] — George Herbert
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
— Martin Luther
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
— Francois Rabelais
If the guardian or the motherTell the woes of willful waste,
Scorn their counsel and their pother,
You can hang or drown at last. — Samuel Johnson
No corner of the world is free from group scorn.
— Gordon W. Allport
Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
My God is a child, so wonder not that the spirit of this time in me is incensed to mockery and scorn.
— C. G. Jung
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.
— Orville Dewey
Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
— Robert Burns
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
— Abraham Cowley
We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.
— Warren Eyster
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
A woman's scorn has been the downfall of a goodly number of men and the cause of many a conflict.
— Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
A little scorn is alluring.
— William Congreve
My hard fortunesDeserve not scorn; for I was never proud
When they were good. — Francis Beaumont
It was not the scorn of the many that left her confused and vulnerable, but the kindness of the few.
— George R R Martin
The cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind.
— Victor Hugo
To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.
— Cassandra Clare
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
— William Congreve
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
— William Cowper
It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.
— George R R Martin
Never scorn a woman. They get violent.
— Pepper Phillips
I smoke a pipe abroad, becauseTo all cigars I much prefer it,
And as I scorn you social laws,
My choice has nothing to deter it. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings, and with luxurious scorn, ask who could be ensnared there.
— Elizabeth Smart
Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.
— Bruce Watson
Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ...
— Amitav Ghosh
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
— Francis Bacon
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
— William Shakespeare
Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved.
— Louis-Joseph Papineau
He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you've shown me. (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me
— Caligula
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I know I amthat simplest bliss
The millions of my brothers miss.
I know the fortune to be born,
Even to the meanest wretch they scorn. — Bayard Taylor
Unlike a sword, scorn has only the bite you give it.
— Brandon Sanderson
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.
— Anthony Liccione
I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want.
— Saul Bellow
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!
— J.K. Rowling
But it is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve
What matter though the scorn of fools be givenIf the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! — Sarah Josepha Hale
You're too cold to freeze, Blade. You have a heart of ice. I try to help you, and all I receive is scorn.
— T.C. Southwell
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
— Al Franken
Men scorn what they don't understand".
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Let us have a dagger between our teeth,a bomb in our hand,and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
— Benito Mussolini
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? — Philip Sidney
Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.
— Mark Twain
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Everything can be borne except contempt.
— Voltaire
Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
— Marjorie Benton Cooke
There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.
— Albert Camus
She laughed with thrilling scorn. Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.
— William Shakespeare
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
— George Bernard Shaw
Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
— Terence McKenna
Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.
— William Shakespeare
Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.
— William Wordsworth
Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
— Gillian Flynn
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
— Baruch Spinoza
To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.
— Blaise Pascal
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
— William Wordsworth
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
— W.S. Gilbert
That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em,We may live with, but cannot live without 'em. — Frederic Reynolds
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.
— Daniel Marques
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
— Francis Bacon
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.
— Neale Donald Walsch
could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind.
— William Wordsworth
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them. — Walt Whitman
And so you see it is love- not scorn,not malice; only love- that makes me harm her, in the end.
— Sarah Waters
What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.
— John Dryden
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
— Ralph Thomas Walker
