Contempt Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

I'm awash in self-contempt!

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged.

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

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

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."