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Quotes About Disdain

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally.
~ W.C. Fields
I hate people in general, but you guys are cool with me.
~ Unknown
There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Shane held the jewelry at arm's length, dangling it like a dead rat. No way in hell am I caught dead or alive wearing that.
~ Rachel Caine
What right have they to disdain a martyr?
~ Rachel Kadish
Finally turning his head, he regarded me appraisingly, with contempt so thick that I expected to hear it drizzle to the floor with a spattering sound.
~ Dean Koontz
Runts? Pipsqueaks? Who was that buffoon!
~ Unknown
Madam," he said, speaking very softly into her face. "I do not want your money. My wife does not want it. And my son will not have it. Cram it up your hole, aye?
~ Diana Gabaldon
There is a great difference between those phenomena which are accepted on faith, and those which are proved by objective determination, though the cause of both may be equally 'rational' once known. And the chief difference is this: that people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced.
~ Diana Gabaldon
And the chief difference is this: that people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced. "Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I hate entertainment.
~ John Cassavetes
The communists have a special disdain for lawyers. Perhaps it is because there will be no need for lawyers when there are no rights to defend. At any rate, Foster has said, "The pest of lawyers will be abolished.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
And English society was was not exactly welcoming to these rich newcomers: Imagine Kim Kardashian marrying Prince Henry today and you get the general idea of the suspicion and disdain that the Americans encountered.
~ Daisy Goodwin
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~ Dan Gutman
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
~ Isaac Barrow
Honeysuckle. She smelled of honeysuckle. He thought about her pert little nose. He'd wanted to smile every time she tilted it to demonstrate her disdain toward him. If her obvious hatred for him hadn't been so great, hadn't hurt so badly, he might have smiled.
~ Lorraine Heath
Oh, no,' she responded, with all the emotion one greets a stain on an old T-shirt.
~ Louise Penny
In company, Charles Sheridan always spoke contemptuously of television. "By Jove," he would say, "I don't see how anyone can look at that trash. It must be a year since I've turned our set on." Now his wife could hear him laughing uproariously.
~ John Cheever
He knew that the disdain for death and crazy courage of youngsters stemmed from a lack of imagination.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
~ Zinedine Zidane
I just don't care what people like Lily Allen think about stuff.
~ Russell Howard
No, what interests me most here is the familiar attitude of superiority, condescension, and disdain. That was evident in the pro-slavery blather of the nineteenth century, and it was on full display at the Mandarin Oriental in November 2014. Democrats, it seems, never change their stripes.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
The telefonino he thought of as belonging to Signor Rossi had spent the holiday on the top of his dresser, despised and rejected of men
~ Donna Leon
Georgia hated all of them. Hated them passionately. She preferred to stay lost than ask for help from those idiots. So
~ J.A. Konrath