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Contempt Quotes

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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
Apuleius

Authors on Contempt Quotes: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mason Cooley William Hazlitt William Shakespeare Friedrich Nietzsche Fyodor Dostoevsky Neal A. Maxwell Voltaire Muriel Rukeyser Betty Furness Dorothy Allison Gordon S. Wood Nadine Gordimer William Ralph Inge Martin Freeman Philip K. Dick Robert Menzies Archibald Rutledge Joseph Addison Khalil Gibran Florence King Thomas Jefferson Maureen Dowd Brendan Behan Cato the Elder Gertrude Stein I. A. Richards Tacitus Publilius Syrus Nicolas Chamfort Steven Pressfield Edmund Burke Joseph Joubert
2.
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Cato the Elder

3.
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
Mitt Romney

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

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Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.
I. A. Richards

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

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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
Brendan Behan

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

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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
Norm MacDonald

10.
I'm awash in self-contempt!
Woody Allen

11.
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Lester Bangs

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Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
George Santayana

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

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Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.
William Shakespeare

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

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Everything can be borne except contempt.
Voltaire

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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.
Andrzej Szczypiorski

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

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An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
Oliver Goldsmith

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

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Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

22.
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
John Ralston Saul

23.
Indifference is the strongest contempt.
Ha Jin

24.
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
Joseph Addison

25.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
Chaka Khan

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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
Tacitus

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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken

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

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

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

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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
Jane Austen

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

34.
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
Alexander Lebed

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

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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.
William Hazlitt

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

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

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

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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.
Martin Freeman

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

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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
Edmund Burke

43.
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.
Jennifer Pahlka

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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
Florence King

45.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
Miguel de Cervantes

46.
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Stewart Udall

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Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.
Maureen Dowd

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