Quotes About Contempt

By acknowledging a petty problem you give it existence and credibility. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him; and a small mistake is often made worse and more visible when you try to fix it. It is sometimes best to leave things alone. If there is something you want but cannot have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem.

Remember: The powerful responses to niggling, petty annoyances and irritations are contempt and disdain. Never show that something has affected you, or that you are offended—that only shows you have acknowledged a problem. Contempt is a dish that is best served cold and without affectation.

Jeg synes synd i dig, Åse, men fortryt ikke på at jeg ler når jeg ser dig, haha, du er så stiv og indtørket, du har vel ikke engang vand i skrævet. Jeg kunde hjelpe dig med en skjærv, men jeg vil ikke had dig på fingrene. Nei. Du er det som det ikke engang er navn på fra Gud, så ussel er du. Bli i freden!

Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

privilege of contempt for the generality of spiritual activities

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

The look on her face in the empty lot—that blankness—and then, later, in the sessions, the warring of contempt, wildness, casual vulnerability, and vehemence, strength. That had laid him low. That had expanded until it hooked into the whole of him, no part of him not committed.

We are to rejoice, but we are to "rejoice with fear" (Ps. 2:11). Therefore, to view and behave as if Christ Jesus is our "homeboy" is to treat the Holy One of Israel with contempt.

In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face, exchanging tender glances, triumphant and supreme in the tranquil abuse of their sex, and their open contempt for the male. And the gentlemen applauded them.

a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)

Heathcliff measured the height and breadth of the speaker with an eye full of derision.