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Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar! — Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

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

No scorn like the scorn of an aging queen for a pretty girl with a crap fake DL. — Janet Fitch

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune. — Francois Rabelais

If the guardian or the mother
Tell 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

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words. — Nas

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 fortunes
Deserve not scorn; for I was never proud
When they were good. — Francis Beaumont

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust. — William Cowper

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

Flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority. — Muriel Spark

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, because
To 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

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices. — Rex Stout

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

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers. — Alexandre Dumas

The Turkish quarter oozed, impregnated with malicious mockery, a viral scorn. — Joseph D. Stec

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

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn. — Eric Hoffer

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. — Essie Summers

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

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. — John Gay

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. — Aeschylus

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 am
that simplest bliss
The millions of my brothers miss.
I know the fortune to be born,
Even to the meanest wretch they scorn. — Bayard Taylor

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn. — John Bercow

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it. — John Calvin

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

Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn. — Ben Shapiro

It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great. — Seneca.

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

What matter though the scorn of fools be given
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! — Sarah Josepha Hale

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

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. — William Gifford

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

The fool will teach ere he has learned, and his very servants scorn him. — Roan Clay

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

[T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5). — Peter Kreeft

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

It's tough to be a Christian in our world. We need to be willing to take on Jesus' unpopularity and the scorn that is often heaped on Him. — Billy Graham

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

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. — Milan Kundera

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize. — Blaise Pascal

For his many sacrifices, he received only scorn and suspicion from those he loved. — Ransom Riggs

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

In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride. — Herman Melville

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

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate. — Robert W. Service

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men — William Inge