Quotes About Disdain

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

he carried his body about with him like something he hated.

Sour grapes, the champagne of the intelligentsia.

I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

I hated 'Top Gun.'

He is a pimple on the cock of humanity

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

Remove your hands from me, my lord, she said calmly. I have nothing to say to you, now or ever. I had never thought to hate anyone. But I believe I do hate you.

I did not participate in these feelings; for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hateful.

He hated stupidity. It was the only emotion I had ever seen him display toward people—a

the expression which, for both of them, meant that they felt at home with each other: an expression of contempt

You must be under the mistaken impression that I care.

Ring! he shrieked at the vapid instrument.

Far from sprouting from the grass roots or channeling the anger of know-nothings, the disdain for reason, science, humanism, and progress has a long pedigree in elite intellectual and artistic culture.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Quisiera entonces que no encuentren la lupa, que no miren de cerca lo difícil, eso no nuestro, tan desprecio, tan asco. Pero insisten y, como soy patriota, digo: "Sucede que los Incas". En donde queda, dí, dí qué le hicieron.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses--clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Last but not least, he hated with all the hatred that was in him the rising generation, the appalling boors who find it necessary to talk and laugh at the top of their voices in restaurants and cafes, who jostle you in the street without a word of apology, and who, without expressing or even indicating regret, drive the wheels of a baby-carriage into your legs.

He made a derisory snort.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

But they bear the burden of being unpopular as proof of their importance - and these eminences turn the suspicion that less elevated customers are careful to disguise as courtesy into naked contempt and disdain. All the people one doesn't need right now are - for the person who will need them in a year's time - no more than air which he breathes but doesn't need to see.