Quotes About Contempt

Things senseless live by art, and rational die By rude contempt of art and industry.

The powerful hold nothing but contempt for those who toady to them, all but the toadies know this.

He had never liked Sloan. The butcher always

Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first, Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

Sir, Saint-Savin replied, the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

Though no one recognized his strength, Anand was among the strong. His satirical sense kept him aloof. At first this was only a pose, and imitation of his father. But satire led to contempt, and at Shorthills contempt, quick, deep, inclusive, became part of his nature. It led to inadequacies, to self-awareness and a lasting loneliness. But it made him unassailable.

The more they talked and argued, the less they understood each other. In the end they fell silent, full of mutual contempt and hatred. And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medley of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.

it has become more important than ever to look at the question of nationalism—of nationalistic contempt and nationalistic arrogance.

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Eponine e Azelma não davam pela sua presença. Era para elas como um cachorro. As três meninas juntas não somavam 24 anos de idade e já representavam toda a sociedade humana; de um lado a inveja, do outro o desprezo.

She's earned my contempt.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

He's such a gargantuan asshole. A giant, stupid orifice. A walking, talking cranny.

She'd heard the word before; seraphim were some high order of angels, at least according to the Christian mythos, for which Brimstone had utter contempt, as he did for all religion. 'Humans have gotten glimpses of things over time,' he'd said. 'Just enough to make the rest up. It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out.

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Aprenderás el desprecio ante la pequeñez de los poderosos, conocerás el respeto ante la grandeza de los pequeños.

Aveva urlato. E aveva sbagliato a farlo. Il disprezzo che provava per quell'uomo non doveva essere manifestato con un ruggito. Doveva essere espresso con il sibilo del serpente. E serpente divenne.

O cumplit? oboseal? de om trândav, o lips? de poft? spiritual?, ca a unuia care a b?ut tot È™i a vomitat tot, o ur? fa?? de orice idee È™i fa?? de orice chip uman m? fac de dispreÈ›uit È™i de comp?timit în propriii mei ochi.

What is the difference to you between hate, and a contempt which results in considering people as 'cargo'?" "It has nothing to do with hate. They were so weak; they allowed everything to happen – to be done to them. They were people with whom there was no common ground, no possibility of communication – that is how contempt is born.

Contempt mates well with pity.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.