Only the contemptible fear contempt.
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Some evils are cured by contempt.
Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an enemy.
Familiarity breeds contempt; distance breeds respect.
Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Mr. Gambini, the next words out of your mouth better be "guilty" or "not guilty." I don't want to hear commentary, argument, or opinion. I don't want to hear any facts or evidence. If I hear anything other than "guilty" or "...
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to ho...
Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held...
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is dif...
What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. C...
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
