To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create one?
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
