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Quotes About Disdain

To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.
~ Ad-Rock
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
~ William Shatner
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
~ James Dyson
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
~ Nigel Kneale
I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!
~ Marc Almond
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
~ Jack Kevorkian
I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.
~ Mickey Spillane
There is, if you don't mind my saying so, something sinister about men who avoid wine, games, the company of charming women, and good dinner-table conversation. People like that are either seriously ill or they secretly disdain their fellow men.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Cuando Karenin vio por primera vez a Mefisto, se excitó y estuvo largo rato dando vueltas a su alrededor y olfateándolo. Pero pronto se hizo amigo de él y prefería su compañía a la de los otros perros del pueblo, a los que despreciaba porque estaban atados a sus casetas y ladraban estúpidamente, sin descanso y sin motivo. Karenin comprendió de manera adecuada el valor de lo exclusivo y podría afirmar que estaba orgulloso de su amistad con el cerdo
~ Milan Kundera
Society does not love its unmaskers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can tell you love him. (Syn) Yeah, like a boil in my nether regions. (Kiara)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
How did we Humans come to be so disdained and marginalized that subjugating us like cattle became our future?
~ Terry Brooks
But I thought she thought he was just a big pile of jobbies?" he said. "I seen her oout walkin', an' when he comes ridin' past, she sticks her nose in th' air and looks the other wa'. In fact, sometimes I seen her wait aroound a full five-and-twenty minutes for him tae come past, just so's she can do that.
~ Terry Pratchett
They turned and looked him up and down. He could see the disdain in their eyes. They probably got through dozens like him every day. "Not got a daughter?" said one of them. "Wants people to kill dragons and he hasn't got a daughter?" Vimes felt, in an odd way, that he ought to support the lord of the city. "He's got a little dog that he's very fond of," he said helpfully.
~ Terry Pratchett
I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
~ Brian Eno
In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations.
~ Herman Melville
I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever.
~ Herman Melville
Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the Human Race in Scorn.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.
~ Horace McCoy
Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.
~ Horace McCoy
I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
You stupid piece of warm bacon.
~ Hugh Lofting