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Quotes About Disdain

Gli uomini per loro natura sono portati a disprezzare i deboli e lusingare i forti.
~ Demostene
Layla had hardly looked at him since they'd left Chapel Springs except to shoot him disdainful looks. He couldn't seem to say anything right. Even when he'd complimented her appearance—and he'd meant every word—she'd twisted his words.
~ Denise Hunter
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
~ Laozi
They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.
~ Jennifer Egan
Petrarch also writes that suicides are caused by anger, disdain, impatience, and "a kind of furious forgetfulness of what thou art.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
Heathcliff measured the height and breadth of the speaker with an eye full of derision.
~ Emily Bronte
a o?i bi bile neodoljive kad bi imale prijateljski izražaj. Na sre?u za moje osjetljivo srce, jedini osje?aj koji su one jasno pokazivale vrtio se izme?u prezira i nekakva o?aja, svakako neobi?no i neprirodno otkri?e u takvim mladim o?ima.
~ Emily Bronte
disapproving
~ Enid Blyton
Pooh, cats!' said Lotta scornfully.
~ Enid Blyton
surprise he turned and spat into the ditch. 'That's what I think of him!
~ Enid Blyton
Mulch was not impressed. 'I'm not impressed,' he said.
~ Eoin Colfer
Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed
~ Eoin Colfer
Mortals, screw 'em.
~ Eoin Colfer
Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed," he said.
~ Eoin Colfer
Hello there, young man. Would you like to see the children's menu?" A vein pulsed in Artemis's temple. "No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it.
~ Eoin Colfer
Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.
~ Eric Hoffer
The truth is that white Americans often hold their biggest disdain for other white Americans—the ones on the opposite side of the cultural divide.
~ Amy Chua
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
~ Cleopatra
With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.
~ Mitchell Hurwitz
Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new. As far back as 1920, Lenin declared that parliaments were 'historically obsolete' and predicted that it was just a matter of time before they disappeared.
~ Anne Applebaum
My dear, I don't give a damn.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I despise research. I think it's a crutch.
~ Howard Schultz
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
~ David Sarnoff
I hate charts. I just despise 'em.
~ Rush Limbaugh