Contempt Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

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

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

Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.

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

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

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

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

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

I'm awash in self-contempt!

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

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

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

Everything can be borne except contempt.

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.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

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

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

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

Indifference is the strongest contempt.