Quotes About Scorn

I treated her with scorn and loathing ever; Now o'er her pictured charms my heart will burst: A traveller I, who scorned the mighty river, And seeks in the mirage to quench his thirst.

Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.

For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.

Unlike a sword, scorn has only the bite you give it.

Somewhere in the dark a vast meaninglessness was beckoning to him. A grinning face that laughed scornfully at all his vain attempts to manage his life.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.

Looking around, Ishmael noted that the humans in control here didn't seem to care. Why is their religious fervor acceptable, while ours is a matter of scorn?

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

Tu haras que ese nombre sea vil, sucio y despreciable y toda la gente al decirlo escupira en el! - Mixtli a Ce-Malinali

Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.

In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.

Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the Human Race in Scorn.

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.

A contempt for things, for order, cleanliness, must lie on a spectrum with scorn for laws, values, for life itself. What is a criminal but a disordered spirit?

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

He felt that he was donning his other-life attire, he was making some kind of obvious invitation, which Owen would scorn.

Most of the time he ignored her scorn because he realised she possessed far greater power and knowledge than he did, but occasionally her autocratic manner grated on his nerves.

The woman directed a scorching gaze at Barbara and Othman, hardly bothering to disguise the suspicion in her eyes that here was a moneyed middle-aged housewife out with her bit of rough. The suspicion was peppered with resentment and envy disguised as scorn.