Quotes of: Contempt Keyword

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

Charles de Gaulle

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Cesar Chavez

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Henry Bolingbroke

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Juan Miro

Caesar: [On Koba's contempt] From Humans... Koba Learned Hatred

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

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

Joseph Priestley

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Mary Astell

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Winston Churchill

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

A Game of Thrones

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Samuel Johnson

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Susie Orbach

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

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

Mitch Daniels

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Plutarch

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Rosemary Mahoney

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.

Chiang Kai-shek

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Bertrand Russell

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Raoul Vaneigem