Quotes About Scorn

Because I don't think I have a handle on how to write for grown-ups. The grown-up publishing world is so fraught with one-upsmanship, scorn and snobbery. I did write an adult novel. Thank goodness it went out of print. I think we kids' authors still start out with hope every morning. We honor our audience.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer."You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

A sorcerer and a whore. Perhaps a certain desperation was to be expected of such unions, as though that strange word, "love," became profound in proportion to the degree one was scorned by others.

there were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge. They were at once scornful of the need for human feeling and envious of the capacity for it.

they'll have to endure a lot of bad publicity, public scorn.

He made her name sound like a swear word.

Runts? Pipsqueaks? Who was that buffoon!

I once again felt an odd flush of admiration for my partner's faith in a religion I had long ago abandoned. She doesn't advertise it or announce it at every turn, and she has nothing but scorn for the patriarchal hierarchy that runs the church, but she nevertheless holds firm to a belief in the religion and ritual with a quiet intensity that can't be shaken.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

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

My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles - only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain, and violence.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

opprobrious term, employed to impose contempt upon

In Paris, Elizabeth's accession was greeted with unconcealed scorn.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

his scorn was like a spark falling on dry tinder.

Trump responded to all this with scorn, lies and personal attacks, establishing a whole new means of presidential communication: governance by Twitter.

We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.

Rainbow dust? sneered Joe, drawing out each syllable until it snapped from the weight of his contempt.