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Quotes About Disdain

I hate nothing more profoundly than the multitude... the accumulation of people, the concentration of vileness and mindlessness and lies. Much as we should love each individual, I believe, so we hate the mass.
~ Thomas Bernhard
When she saw him come nigh, she said, Away, kitchen knave, out of the wind, for the smell of thy bawdy clothes grieveth me.
~ Thomas Malory
C'è nostalgia, dentro, e malinconica invidia, appena un po' di disprezzo e una grande, casta felicità.
~ Thomas Mann
Flood conditions can be detected sooner and evacuations begun and carried out more quickly where there are ample resources to produce all the cars, planes, and other vehicles needed to move huge numbers of people out of danger. All these things are made possible by the material wealth which is often treated so disdainfully by those promoting "safety." But to kill the goose that lays the golden egg is, in effect, to kill people.
~ Thomas Sowell
C'est comme une furie en moi, une perversion qui me pousse à désirer ce que je méprise le plus au monde.
~ Katherine Pancol
a brazen disdain for scholarly norms and the actual facts. But it makes a certain kind of sense: you have to tell lots of little lies to promote one big lie.
~ Katherine Stewart
General Raikes watched the antics of the nobles with disdainful interest, like a man studying a group of monkeys at play.
~ Kathryne Kennedy
I tried to avoid looking at the dress full on, lest it burn out my retinas with its glittering hideousness.
~ Katie MacAlister
Oh, for God's sake. Save your piss. Don't save your piss. It's all the same to me.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Sorry, but you're mistaking me for someone who gives a damn.
~ Geoff Tibballs
Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Arrogant dickhead!" "Screeching harpy." "Asshole." "Bitch.
~ Ilona Andrews
I checked his eyes and saw the familiar superiority. He was painfully aware that his world was populated with people of lesser intelligence, and his eyes told me he was regretfully resigned to slumming. Saiman.
~ Ilona Andrews
She crossed her arms. He held out his hand, inviting her to join him. Fat chance. "Please grace me with your presence," he said as if she were a lady at some ball and he was inviting her on a balcony for a private chat. He was mocking her. She bristled.
~ Ilona Andrews
When the tremulous radiance of a summer night fills with twinkling stars and the moon itself is full, I am slowly drawn into a state of enhanced sensitivity made of friendship and disdain for the world and eternity
~ Immanuel Kant
I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.
~ Iris Murdoch
Yes, my mother was on about Byron. But who wants to be like Byron? I despise him.
~ Iris Murdoch
I have no interest in vegetarians whatsoever. Zero. Less than zero.
~ Wylie Dufresne
My specialty is detached malevolence.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Familiarity breeds contempt.
~ Anonymous
I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.
~ Adolf Hitler
In a matter of seconds I, too, had come to despise her.
~ Susanna Moore