Quotes About Scornful

their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather.

Now that you've had other men to use as a basis for comparison,how do I rate? he teased. That's an adolescent question, Lauren retorted scornfully.

Someone has described love to you. You have had it described to you. You have heard that it is a small, fearful, selfish joy. It is not that—it is wild, and scornful, and sportive, and bloody.... How should you know.

Have you seen it...Singin' in the rain, have you seen it? ...His answer was all in his face, scornful and baffled at once. Money makes me ask stupid questions. He wanted it, of course, because someone else didn't have it. Debbie Reynolds dies in the end, I told him.

The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?

She hates and fears her husband, but only because he has not protected her, and she sees herself condemned to loneliness and exile. In this she is prescient. I see her, some years hence, a remittance woman, paid to live abroad, in such an hotel, in various Hotels du Lac, her beautiful face grown gaunt and scornful, her dog permanently under her arm. Her last weapon will be an unyielding snobbishness, which is already in evidence.

It is as if I were beginning the game all over again, neither happier nor unhappier than before. But aware now of where my strength lies, scornful of my own vanities

Hannah had spent her teens being scornful of religion, but the Christian churches were now the last line of defence against the indifference and stupidity of successive governments of different political stripes.

Oh, my country, so foolish and dear, Scornful America, crooning a tune. Think, Think: are we immune? Catch him, catch him and stop him soon!

She was scornful. "He talks to you personally?" "He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don't bother to listen.

Of all the griefs, that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than

Of all the griefs, that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.   Has

That answer, as Lila's answers always were, always had been, though intended to be conciliatory, had something arrogant, scornful, about it, which made Pinuccia even angrier.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Miss Evans was a scornful Max Reinhardt saint... She left the room, her hips provocative and fluid. page 270 Murder In The Madhouse/ by Jonathan Latimer

Miss Evans was a scornful Max Reinhardt saint. ... She left the room, her hips provocative and fluid.

He hid a scornful smile under his moustache, which is not a good hiding place.

There is, however, one other figurative representative of humanity in which we fail to recognize our own scornful and pitiful selves at our peril. That pathetic figure reflecting the readers back to themselves very uncomfortably is Gollum. Seldom or perhaps never in the field of human literature has the human soul in a state of addiction to sin been portrayed with such psychological realism and spiritual brilliance.

I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Piglet," Bishop Wulfheard said in a scornful tone. I stared at him, then held up a hand to check Merewalh, who was about to leave the hall. "Maybe we don't need a piglet," I said slowly, as if an idea was just coming to me. "Why waste a baby pig when there's a bishop available?" Wulfheard fled.