Contempt Quotes - Page 2

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

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

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

The universal religion - contempt for women.