Quotes About Contempt

She was indeed tired , as she'd claimed , but it wasn't the cooking that exhausted her. It was the effort of suppressing her contempt for he damn fools who were gathered in the lounge below. She'd called them friends once , these half-wits , with their poor jokes and poorer pretensions.

She was indeed tired , as she'd claimed , but it wasn't the cooking that exhausted her. It was the effort of suppressing her contempt for the damn fools who were gathered in the lounge below. She'd called them friends once , these half-wits , with their poor jokes and poorer pretensions.

His disdain for those he robbed was of a different variety, akin to that of a child grinding his shoe on a cockroach.

I had one word for him, and it started with an ass and ended in hole.

a leering, sneering obscene little harpy...

I came here prepared to fight an enemy," he murmured, his voice rough with need. "I came here expecting to feel contempt for you, not this. Christ, anything but this." He lowered his head and kissed her, hot and hard and deep.

Style, after all, is a kind of humor, Something truly beneath contempt...

Así que, si me ayudas, es solo por temor a represalias. —Le doy la espalda, vuelvo a echarme en la cama, dispuesta a seguir durmiendo, y le resumo en una palabra lo que pienso de él—: Cabrón.

Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

I pity his ignorance and despise him.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

I fart in your general direction.

Je buvais à pleins verres les étoiles" (Mes amis m'ont enfin avoué leur mépris)

The normal man of intelligence has something of a contempt for linguistic studies, convinced as he is nothing can well be more useless. Edward Sapir - 1924

He wore a black hat and a drooping moustache. His face was angular but the eyes, like the eyes of most cowhands, were bored. It occurred to Miss Pink, acknowledging the introductions with grace, that the bored eyes went with the myth, as an expression of contempt went with the gangster myth.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money for the purchase of unlawful pleasures, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk.

to try and preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

She's about as sweet as a flaming turd.