Contempt Quotes - Page 3

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.