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Quotes About Disdain

No," I corrected her, "I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope. I hate everyone equally.
~ David Sedaris
So bring on your inquiry. Present your case, and we'll present ours. Not because we give one single solitary damn for your prepackaged, predetermined 'impartial conclusions,' but because we care about history. Because unlike you, we do care about truth. And because someday your successors, whoever they may be, will have a record of what you actually do here and will revile your memory with all the contempt and all the disdain your actions will so richly merit.
~ David Weber
Jesus, look at that idiot! Waters' exec muttered, and the citizen captain shook his head in disgust. Having
~ David Weber
I noticed how those who know the truth are always treated with suspicion and disdain. That was the case with Jesus, of course. But look at old Miss Marple. Always she knows, and everyone is surprised that she does. And the same with Hercule Poirot. How can that ridiculous little man know anything? But he does, he does. It is the triumph of the meek, in Agatha Christie as in the Gospels.
~ Yann Martel
Los hombres que tienen tantas cosas que expresar en bellas obras soñadas durante mucho tiempo sienten cierto desprecio por la conversación, trato en el que el espíritu se rebaja al degradarse.
~ Honore de Balzac
Persian luxury, boy, I hate.
~ Horace
Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.
~ Iain M. Banks
Hairlessness is an aggressive stance, and implies a lack of vanity and disdain for luxury. It implies a state of war. A French-style waxing job or pubic 'landing strip' is like the so-called mohawk haircut favored by the Pawnee tribe and used in times of war by Cossacks, airborne troops, and the like. The 'Brazilian' wax job is the full skinhead.
~ Unknown
Favorite color: I hate colors.
~ Ian Shoales
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
~ Idries Shah
Perish the thought!
~ Colley Cibber
Pity the minds hat disdain opposition for opposition is the driving force of philosophy.
~ Unknown
I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.
~ Craig Silvey
Thank you for nothing, you stupid reptile.
~ Cressida Cowell
I would rather be thrown in a fiery pit of hell than return to Wales," Unable to tolerate him for another second, Helen stood and said coolly, "I'm sure that can be arranged, Mr. Vance.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I could not tame my nature down; for he Must serve who fain would sway -- and soothe -- and sue -- And watch all time -- and pry into all place -- And be a living lie -- who would become A mighty thing amongst the mean, and such The mass are; I disdained to mingle with A herd, though to be leader -- and of wolves. The lion is alone, and so am I.
~ Unknown
You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.
~ Jim Butcher
I've always recognized that look – that look of sanctified contempt adopted by the righteous.
~ Joanne Harris
I know who you are, and I am not impressed.
~ Joan Jett
A woman's counsel is not worth much, but he that despises it is no wiser than he should be
~ Horace Smith
We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do.
~ Josh Billings
I wouldn't yell 'fire' at that slimeball if his ass was in flames.
~ Unknown
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
~ Unknown
I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops, above all upon that chambermaid face. They might have looked timeless, Remeses the Great, but not the chambermaid, that old maid history. I spit! I spit! I spit!
~ W.B. Yeats