Quotes About Disdain

I hate the polo collar.

I don't give a crap about clowns.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

I don't like Jay Hieron very much. He just bothers me, the way he talks, and he thinks very highly of himself.

The look she gives me isn't quite a sneer. It's more like she opened a garbage can and found a dead skunk inside.

Geryon looks at me like I'm a moldy ham sandwich someone forgot in the back of the fridge at work.

You're a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she?

I had no sympathy for him and still haven't. That old saw about "To understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

The rich really are very different," Tyler Costigan was saying. "Especially if they are also unscrupulous." ... "They have always gotten what they wished, and after a while they think they are supposed to. If they have a problem they hire someone to solve it. And they become ever more contemptuous of people who cannot. They even become contemptuous of people who have problems. And eventually they are contemptuous of everyone and care only about what they want.

True ownership can come only from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from a confidence in your own decisions, and from the use of your time in constant pursuit of education and improvement.

Remember: The powerful responses to niggling, petty annoyances and irritations are contempt and disdain. Never show that something has affected you, or that you are offended—that only shows you have acknowledged a problem. Contempt is a dish that is best served cold and without affectation.

they rarely look at Baba - the teenagers - and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.

her tone more disapproving than dismayed.

You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.

He is harshing my buzz, and I am"—Regin turned to yell over her shoulder—"not interested!

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins.

privilege of contempt for the generality of spiritual activities