Quotes About Contempt

Plus les hommes me sont indifférents, plus ils me troublent; et quand je les méprise, je ne puis les approcher sans bégayer.

Cu cît oamenii te intereseazå mai putin, cu atît devii mai timid în fata lor, iar cînd ajungi sa-i dispretuiesti, începi sa te bîlbîi.

Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly and always be spoiled at this trade. Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this demoralization; they are: contempt for the masses and the over-estimation of one's own merits.

He had often watched her as she crossed the floor in her checkered apron, her face a dark mask behind which belligerence battled with humility. This was in her eyes which never for an instant lost their wariness and which were always ready, within a split second, to turn black and lightless with contempt.

Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.

Contempt of the defeated for the victor, seemingly a perverse response, is a loser's sentiment—denying admission of its own fault or failure and believing itself robbed of victory by some malign mischance, as in sports when a gust of wind might divert the throw of a ball, giving victory to the opponent.

Alfred] Jarry's teaching could be summarized thus: every man is capable of showing his contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the universe by making his own life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

Some people just need killing.

I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension, indifference, and occasional piercing honesty.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

I hate fashion!

I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.

Contempt is murder committed by the intellect, as hatred is murder committed by the heart.

The English will never develop into a nation of philosophers. They will always prefer instinct to logic and character to intelligence. But they must get rid of their downright contempt for 'cleverness'. They cannot afford it any longer. They must grow less tolerant of ugliness, and mentally more adventurous. And they must stop despising foreigners. They are Europeans and ought to be aware of it.

The true luxury and the real potlatch of our times falls to the poverty-stricken, that is, to the individual who lies down and scoffs. A genuine luxury requires the complete contempt for riches, the somber indifference of the individual who refuses to work and makes his life on the one hand an infinitely ruined splendor, and on the other, a silent insult to the laborious lie of the rich.

You think I've got brains?' he said, awed. 'Not confusing me with Charlie?' 'Charlie?' uttered Miss Charing contemptuously. 'I daresay he has book-learning, but you have—you have address, Freddy!' 'Well, by Jove!' said Mr Standen, dazzled by this new vision of himself.

Live where you choose! It's all one to me. Have you anything more to say?' 'No, I have not, and I should be very happy to think I need never say another word to you for as long as I live – and of all things in the world there is nothing – nothing – so abominable, and contemptible, and cowardly, and ungentlemanly as persons who walk out of the room when one is addressing them!

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Familiarity does not breed contempt, anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. And that is all as it should be.

I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

Some people love only those they can condescend to, those they can tenderly despise.

PIGEON MY ARSE!