Quotes About Contempt

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

I'd tell you to go to hell but I don't want to see you again.

Is love so paltry a thing, to be plucked and dropped to the ground at the first breath of contempt?

Love could be such a squalid emotion: burning bright in the midst of pathos, the subject of pity and contempt, it blazed with brilliant stupidity all the same.

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

I invented the phrase: "Music not to be listened to." That was my commercial phrase with which I sold Muzak. It was the first music deliberately created to which people were not supposed to listen. It was a new kind of background music. That's why my mother, who was a fine musician, held it in contempt. She wouldn't have it in her apartment. Anybody who knows anything about music holds Muzak in contempt.

I am asked to speak upon "The Moral Leadership of the Religious Press." For one who has for fifty years been ridiculed by both press and pulpit, denounced as infidel by both, it is, to say the least, very funny. Nevertheless I am glad to stand here today as an object lesson of the survival of the fittest, from ridicule and contempt.

This tension between the colonists' unabashed enjoyment of drink and their contempt for drunkenness was soon expressed in a series of laws, which are still part of the split American character.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.

you're so afraid of everyone pitying you that you'd rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness" - Stacey Michaels

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. All of us- all who knew her- felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. [...] And she let us, and thereby deserved our contempt.

flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.

Shrivel up and die, you putrescent sack of larva!

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Todo cuanto el sombrerero destilaba de afabilidad y entusiasmo, don Ricardo exhalaba en crueldad y fortaleza. Su sonrisa canina dejaba claro que era capaz de leer sus pensamientos y sus deseos y que se reía de ellos. Sophie sintió por él ese anémico desprecio que despiertan las cosas que más deseamos sin saberlo

Sophie sintió por él ese anémico desprecio que despiertan las cosas que más deseamos sin saberlo.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

i hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me.

To heck with him, I thought righteously. Him and the horse he rode in on.

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.