Quotes of: Contempt Keyword

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

Marshall McLuhan

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Aleksandr Lebed

The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.

Letters from a Stoic

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butler

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Toby Young

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Mitch Daniels

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Austin O'Malley

For it was intelligence that was the thin line between endearing rapscallion and idiot bastard. - Éibhear the Contemptible

G.A. Aiken

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Jean Rostand

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Will Durst

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

Finley Peter Dunne

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Jello Biafra

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

Jack Kevorkian

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Arthur Murphy

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

William Hazlitt

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

Khalil Gibran

Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.

Monica Crowley