Quotes About Scorn

Despite their contributions, camp followers ranked on the very bottom of the social scale. Although the soldiers for whom they toiled may have appreciated their services, they received nothing but scorn from the upper classes.

Grading papers," he repeated with scorn. "There is no human achievement so great, that a freshman cannot reduce it to drivel.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

And men my prophet wail deride!

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man's finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations.

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust

I broke the spell that held me long, The dear, dear witchery of song. I said, the poet's idle lore Shall waste my prime of years no more, For Poetry, though heavenly born, Consorts with poverty and scorn.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!