Quotes About Disdain

Quite the contrary, it was an act of disdain for the complicated interchange known as conversation: for its vagaries, lost and meandering trails, half-understandings, and mysterious clarities. For the meaning of a pun is clear, all too clear. It demands a leap in understanding, to the exact place the punner demands.

You idiot,' Layla said. 'You sneering, despicable - ' 'You're beginning to repeat yourself.

Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.

Plus les hommes me sont indifférents, plus ils me troublent; et quand je les méprise, je ne puis les approcher sans bégayer.

The satisfaction we take from performing a task (especially when we have no belief in the task and even disdain it) shows to what degree we still belong to the rabble.

Detesto le canzonature: inaridiscono il cuore e sciupano ogni sentimento

Within the army, field officers despised Staff officers as "having the brains of canaries and the manners of Potsdam," but both groups were as one in their distaste for interference by civilian ministers who were known as "the frocks." The civil arm in its turn referred to the military as "the boneheads.

I do loathe explanations.

Teens had the world's best built-in poker face: a hormone-fueled, constant glare of bored contempt.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

I hate the Bible. I always did.

The middlebrow, I hate.

I hate fashion!

Every old dude hates young people.

Everyone hates the best clubs, it is as simple as that.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.

can the title of Donna Bustamente make me any happier?" "It would put you out of reach of the insolent disdain of society." "Society!" said Juliette; "you mean your friends. What is society? I have never known. I have passed through life and made the tour of the globe, but have never been able to discover what you call society.

If you mention Bella's name to me again, Gil, I am likely to do you a mischief!' Sherry warned him. 'I never cared the snap of my fingers for that wretched girl, and if you are not assured of that, ask her! Why, God save the mark, she may be a beauty, but give me my Kitten! Bella, with her airs and her graces, and her miffs, and her curst sharp tongue! No, I thank you! What's more, no man who had lived with Kitten would look twice at the Beauty!

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

We weren't very wealthy, but I had a real working-class guilt about wanting to perform. I felt disdain towards it because of the thought that performers were looking for attention. I did theatre studies for my A levels, but didn't think a career as a performer was something I could do.

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).