Quotes About Contempt

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

I thought I had never been filled with such an instant dislike for someone.

A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.

Is it right for God to be pleased when others hold him in contempt? Is it fitting that he be joyful when his created beings despise him? Of course not! To the contrary, it's fitting and proper for God to be displeased when his created beings hold him in contempt. But this means that it's also fitting and proper for him to be pleased when appropriate love, esteem, and honor are given to him.

If I'm garbage, you're a bunch of maggots.

El hombre que se ríe de todo es que todo lo desprecia. La mujer que se ríe de todo es que sabe que tiene una dentadura bonita

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Das Leben lieben und zugleich die Menschen verachten, das geht selten gut aus.

All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences (like unheard melodies), it might come to resemble love.

Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.

This is one underlying reason why poetry is so often met with contempt rather than mere indifference and why it is periodically denounced as opposed to simply dismissed: Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

A government that spoke of military glory as an aim would betray ignorance of, or contempt for, the spirit of nations and the age. It would be an error by a thousand years. Even if it should initially succeed, it would be interesting to see who in the end would win this odd wager, our own century or the offending government.

The proud hate pride – in others.

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

This court is in contempt of human life, dignity and justice.

Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.

I despise Stucks Buckley, and what the fuck kind of name is that?)

Good Lord, I hated her, but you had to admire the bitch.

A veces me pregunto si esa es la raíz de su desprecio por mí: permite que vea sus defectos y me odia por conocerlos.

What is the difference to you between hate, and a contempt which results in considering people as 'cargo'?