Quotes About Disdain

opprobrious term, employed to impose contempt upon

The plan had not taken into account the power of American resolve and natural disdain for authority.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all .

Desprecio la popularidad efímera

Eram prea necopt ca s? ?tiu c? cinismul de orice fel este o masc? pentru neputin?a de adaptare - pe scurt, un fel de impoten?? ?i c? a dispre?ui orice fel de efort este cel mai mare efort.

When told that there was to be the annual jamboree for academic philosophers in Cambridge in 1947, he said it was as if he had been told that there would be bubonic plague in Cambridge, and he would make sure he was in London — which he was!

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

Ignore me? Okay that's cool, just don't be mad when I ignore you.

Im sorry if you dont like me I'm sorry if you think I suck but most of all I'm sorry, I dont give a fu...

his scorn was like a spark falling on dry tinder.

Feel free to bugger off and die at any time.' Dan scowled.

His senseless disdain was beyond me. I have met only a few men like him in my life, and they rattle my soul. They are frightening, and you can never anticipate the turn of their minds or the extent of their greed. They are in fact criminals uncaught by society.

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.

For one cannot have a perfect knowledge, one cannot effect the complete absorption of a person who disdains one, so long as one has not overcome her disdain.

As the six, in file, passed into the poorhouse proper they clicked off glances of disdain with industrial precision.

Rainbow dust? sneered Joe, drawing out each syllable until it snapped from the weight of his contempt.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

The sort of thing people call little masterpieces, trifles that are perfect gems, in fact what I loathe most in the world. The

Thus God, whose will it is that a few well-written books should exist, breathes disdain into the hearts of the Mmes Leroi, for He knows that, should they invite the Mmes de Villeparisis to dinner, then these would immediately leave their writing desks and order their carriages for eight o'clock.

As for Frank—who cares?

He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

My dear, I don't give a damn.