Quotes About Contempt

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

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

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.