Contempt Quotes - Page 11

• If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

  William Godwin

  Gains, Poverty, Admiration

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• America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, America, People

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

  Julie Klausner

  Fear, Admiration, Results

  Julie Klausner (2010). “I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated”, p.67, Penguin

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• Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, Conviction, Genuine

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by T. Bailey Saunders (Volume 2, Chapter 24, § 324), 1851.

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• A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hurt, Doe, Treats

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.

  Michael Shanks

  Thinking, Democracy, Mixtures

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• I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Book, Law, Want

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• As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Son, Sacrifice

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.32

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• Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Games

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Chapter 29, 1866.

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• I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

  Mark Twain

  Hatred, House, Enthusiasm

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• I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

  Martin Freeman

  Familiarity

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• Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors.

  Holt McCallany

  Morning, Guy, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.

  Jamake Highwater

  Adventure, Glasses, Self

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• Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

  Heather King

  Listening Ear, Names, People

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• Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Winning, Men, Vanity

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• As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Firsts, Shame, Christ

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• She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

  Baroness Orczy

  Misunderstood, Matter, Facts

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.143, Xist Publishing

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• Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Yield, Ease, May

  William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”

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• Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

  William Benton Clulow

  Sports, Wise, Scandal

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.137

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• In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Country, Art, Attitude

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• I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Believe, Book, Soul

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• Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Believe, People, Environmental

  "Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism". iheu.org. July 14, 2006.

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• Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

  R. H. Tawney

  Spiritual, Order, Reason

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.197, Verso Books

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• You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Love Life

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• To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however flimsy, and put to death with horrible tortures. No government pretending to be civilized can go on condoning such atrocities. Either it must make every possible effort to put them down or it must suffer the scorn and contempt of Christendom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Government, Lynching

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