Quotes About Scorn

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.

Jay S. Coreman, Ted's Toolshed

When she came into Venus' presence the goddess laughed aloud and asked her scornfully if she was seeking a husband since the one she had had would have nothing to do with her because he had almost died of the burning wound she had given him.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use?

Hang o'er the Box, and hover round the Ring.   Think what an equipage thou hast in Air, 45   And view with scorn two Pages and a Chair.

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

The fundamentalist mind...is essentially Manichean; it looks upon the world as an arena for conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, and accordingly it scorns compromises (who would compromise with Satan?) and can tolerate no ambiguities.

He's up there talkin',' he muttered scornfully. 'Doesn't he talk?' The tone of contempt was oil on the troubled waters of William's feelings. 'I've just bit him hard,' he said modestly.

Thou deboshed fish thou.

To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

But, alas! to make meA fixed figure for the time of scornTo point his slow and moving finger at.

O that he were here to write me down an ass!

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.

O! what a deal of scorn looks beautifulIn the contempt and anger of his lip.

Hang out our banners on the outward walls;The cry is still, "They come"; our castle's strengthWill laugh a siege to scorn.

The horn, the horn, the lusty hornIs not a thing to laugh to scorn.

When politics becomes a matter of vilification and innuendo, then eventually people feel repugnance for the whole process. It is the beginning of a yearning for a strong man who will rise above petty and partisan groups. The Nazis were to exploit this feeling fully, and though they contributed richly to the rise of partisan acrimony, they were also the first to pronounce "politician" with every possible tone of scorn and sarcasm.

Small service is true service while it lasts:Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

A vile race of quislings—to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.