Quotes About Contempt

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Sucks to your ass-mar!

That of Luther is most true, omnia præcepta sunt in primo tanquam capite—all the commands are wrapped up in the first. For, saith he, all sin is a contempt of God; and so we cannot break any other commands, but we break the first.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

That good-looking Mrs. Penmark, that dizzy blonde, didn't know what it was all about. She was too dumb, when you came right down to it, to understand his contempt for her. She was one of them soft, easily-taken-in ones that went around feeling sorry for people. She was one of the ones that was eat up with kindness

As far back as 1912, John Muir had protested against the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam with these words: "These temple destroyers, devotees of raging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

He did not like Europe, which he regarded as a lesser continent, populated with people significantly greedier and more materialistic than Americans. It was a place, he noted, where

Nothing appalled Deming more than the idea of the interchangeable manager. "What is the motivation and purpose of men like this?" he would say with contempt. "Do they even know what they do anymore? What do they produce?" All they knew about was numbers, not product. All they thought about was maximum profit, not excellence of product.

No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

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

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.