Quotes About Contempt

And you don't matter to me, table scrap. (Varyk) That feeling is entirely mutual, bear bait. Hell, I don't even acknowledge you as being here. So get out and take your trash with you. (Dev)

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you're just as human as they are. That's when the madness sets in. They can't understand why you have more than they do when you're just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

when she saw Addison was concern, weariness, a dash of contempt, a dash of pride, a dash of hope.

Flush was a fellow traveller of course, and enjoyed it in the most obviously amusing manner. Never was there so good a dog in a carriage before his time! Think of Flush, too! He has a supreme contempt for trees and hills or anything of that kind, and, in the intervals of natural scenery, he drew in his head from the window and didn't consider it worth looking at; but when the population thickened, and when a village or a town was to be passed through

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. —QUENTIN CRISP

Now, thanks to Erasmus's In Praise of Folly, a contempt for universities and their Aristotle-centered curriculum acquired intellectual chic.

So much the worse for the wood if it finds that it has become a violin, and I feel nothing but contempt for those ignoramuses who argue over things that they know nothing about.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

A "god" whose will is resisted, whose designs are frustrated, whose purpose is checkmated, possesses no title to Deity, and so far from being a fit object of worship, merits naught but contempt.

A mí no me mueve el amor por la humanidad, sino el desprecio hacia ella.

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

I'd hate their guts if they had any.

Trinidad Jame$ is the most garbage piece of rapper that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I guess this is where they send the abortions that live.

An interesting man. He was a last minute replacement as Bush's running mate, when the original candidate managed to say Thy Kingdom Cunt at a prayer breakfast.

Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.

Of Pride. And though it be so that no man can accurately tell the number of the twigs and the evils that come from Pride, yet will I show you a part of them, as you shall understand. There is Disobedience, Boasting, Hypocrisy, Contempt, Arrogance, Impudence, Swelling of Heart, Insolence, Elation, Impatience, Haughtiness, Presumption, Irreverence, Obstinacy, Vainglory, and many another twig that I can not declare.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life.