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Quotes About Disdain

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.
~ Simon Jordan
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
~ Mark Twain
so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
~ Mark Twain
I'd tell you to go to hell but i don't want to see you again.
~ Markus Zusak
Are not the forest fringes wet with tears? Is not the voice of all regret Breaking out of the dark earth's heart? She too, she too, has loved and lost; and though She turned last night in disdain Away from the sunset-embers, From her soul she can never depart; She can never depart from her pain. Vainly she strives to forget; Beautiful in her woe, She awakes in the dawn and remembers.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Seneca[1] rightly remarks, ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita solutissimae est, the more contemptible and ridiculous a man is,-the readier he is with his tongue.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.
~ Ayn Rand
Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile;
~ Stacy Schiff
How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
~ Stephen Fry
It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About The Da Vinci Code
~ Stephen Fry
all clues, ideally, should be met with delight and detachment, rather than euphoria or, worse, disdain and despair.
~ Stephen J. Bodio
It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.
~ Stephen King
It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it.
~ Stephen King
I did not and do not want my life tied up in cloak-and-dagger bullshit, dead guys, or pissing contests with either the testosterone crowd in there or some prissy-assed Earl Grey-drinking, scone-munching major who isn't even my freaking boss. I don't know you and I don't give a rat's ass if you trust me.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Régis Jauffret got it right when he said that he was disgusted by writers who think of their readers.
~ Jonathan Meades
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.
~ Eminem
It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.
~ Eric Stoltz
A wise man will not trust too much those who admire him, even for his wisdom. He knows that an admirer is never truly satisfied until he can substitute pity for his admiration and disdain for his applause. Our admirers are always on the lookout for evidence of our collapse. They find a solace in the fact that our superiority was transitory and that we end as they do—old and useless.
~ Ben Hecht
The proud hate pride – in others.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I've always despised the hippies.
~ John Lydon
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
~ Steve Coogan
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
~ Sidney Poitier
Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.
~ Gillian Flynn