Contempt Quotes - Page 4

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

To be too busie gets contempt.

if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.