Quotes About Disdain

Kat hates men like that, men who are too attractive for their own good-and know it.

Stop it, who cares about this Dostoyevsky, who gives a damn about the Karamazovs.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

The NFL can go to hell.

In all speaking there is a grain of contempt. Language, so it seems, was invented only for what is mediocre, common, communicable. In language, speakers vulgarize themselves right away.

One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

He tolerates no other enemy than one in whom nothing is to be despised and a great deal is worthy of respect!

Out of love alone shall my despising and my warning bird fly up, not out of swamp. (...) Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.

It is a trick of Christianity to teach the utter worthlessness, sinfulness, and despicableness of man in general so loudly that disdain for one's fellow men becomes impossible.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Sprezzatura is a style of elegant nonchalance.

He looked at her with contempt, the contempt that silver might feel for sodden flesh. "She never could hold her liquor." "We were pub-crawling," I said. "We had a wizard do." He looked at me sharply. "Evidently. Now why should you be interested in a bag of worms like this?" "You're talking about the woman I love.

As to the Dutch, he despised them. For that

He lacked the energy to work the crowd, he was fresh out of innocuous drivel... Saggy boobs, ran the thought balloon in his head. Bunfaced tofubrain. Thumbsucking posterboy. Fridgewoman. Sell his granny. Wobble-bummed bovine. Bladderheaded jerk.

alguien a quien aborrecemos nos hace un favor, despreciamos tanto a la persona como el favor.

He sneered with the impatience of people listening to the obvious lies of others.

What have you done with Hetty? he demanded. Listened to her incessant prattle, complaints, tears, demands, artless conversation and recriminations for more than twenty-four hours. You will be pleased to know I didn't touch her—if I had I would have throttled her. Take her away, if you please. I'd rather spend the rest of my life a pauper than have to spend even another day with the divine Miss Chippie.

You want to be independent?" he asked. He pronounced the word at a distance, somehow, as if he found it distasteful.