Quotes About Disparagement

lately a scholar at Eton, who aroused everyone's suspicions by knowing Latin and Greek [at the Billing trial, the judge made a point of not knowing any Greek, and disparaged those who did]

Foolish people hate scholars due to envy; so they ill-treat them. On account of envy only, lazy and poor people develop enmity towards the affluent.

Brains. Brains. What do we really mean by the term? In your idiom you would say that Jane Wilkinson has the brains of a rabbit. That is a term of disparagement. But consider the rabbit for a moment. He exists and multiplies, does he not? That, in Nature, is a sign of mental superiority.

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

All fools have still an itching to deride

shawn is a bitch

People learn to be hostile,disparaging and manipulative because it works for them.these people expect you to react in certain ways to their style,because in that way they win.if you allow yourself to be sucked into their expectations,you have not only let them get away but you are bound to feel frustrated,helpless and eventuall your bad side of nature will reached its climax.

Rachel became slowly aware now, even while talking and listening to her own voice, that there might well be something universal about the pleasure a grown girl could take in disparaging her mother.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

A grasp of the psychological mechanism behind taste will not necessarily change our sense of what we find beautiful, but it can prevent us from reacting to what we don't like with simple disparagement

It is no disparagement of Winston's extraordinary qualities to say that his judgement is not quite equal to his abilities

The fact that someone would get on national television and make disparaging comments about me because I'm simply trying to do my job is disgusting.

Los que se sienten despreciados procuran mostrarse despectivos.

Det är illa gjort mot en sjuk man att likna honom vid en smålänning

Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.

It is no disparagement to truth, that it can only prevail where reason prevails. War begins where reason ends. The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.

It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.

Perhaps I may do something by writing,' said Charley, very bashfully. 'By writing! ha, ha, ha,' and Alaric laughed somewhat cruelly at the poor navvy—' do something by writing! what will you do by writing? will you make £20,000—or 20,000 pence? Of all trades going, that, I should say, is likely to be the poorest for a poor man—the poorest and the most heart-breaking.

Laugh if you will... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide.

Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

I'm tired of getting made fun of.

The desire not to use disparaging terms for other groups can have its comic side, and is often dismissed as a product of 'political correctness'. But the concern behind it is part of the growth of one of our central moral resources.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.