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Quotes About Disdain

An intellectual hate is the worst.
~ William Butler Yeats
An intellectual hatred is the worst.
~ William Butler Yeats
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust
~ William Cowper
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
~ William Cowper
have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
~ William Hazlitt
Her cheeriness grates as always, but with Jennifer he senses that it is a true reflection of her inner self and not some act, and that stops him from vomiting his disdain onto her scarf. One doesn't shout at a lame girl for her limp, or upbraid a blind man for his lack of sight. She is entitled to her disability.
~ William Lashner
One thing I learned on my sporadic spiritual journey was that mainstream culture's disdain and disrespect for the intellectual integrity of Christianity is unwarranted, and its conceited assumption that Christian beliefs are a product of blind faith, bereft of reason and intellect, is completely false.
~ David Limbaugh
He who studies himself at all is ignoble. Only by despising soul as well as body can a man enter true life.
~ David Lindsay
Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.
~ Murdoc Niccals
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
~ Alexander Pope
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
I didn't read the book. I burned it after the first sentence.
~ Rodindeadpan
The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Jay S. Coreman, Ted's Toolshed
~ I have nothing but contempt.
I hate him, too, she shivered. I hate his damned suffering.
~ Earnest Hemingway
Simblefield, whose ability to camouflage his ignorance was held in well-justified contempt by the rest of the form
~ Edmund Crispin
I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told me with disdain, 'This is a whole big bunch of unbelievable!
~ Edward Conlon
Love is the opposite of anger. Anger is disdain, hatred, and contempt.
~ Edward T. Welch
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
~ Aldous Huxley
Quoique bien jeune, j'ai trop connu ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler la vie pour n'avoir pas trouvé au fond de cette mer le mépris de ce qu'on aperçoit à sa surface. ( RAZETTA )
~ Alfred de Musset
Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.
~ Frans Timmermans
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
~ Wallis Simpson
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb