Contempt Quotes - Page 26

• My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case, quite frankly, presumed familiarity has led to unfamiliarity, unfamiliarity has led to contempt, and contempt has led to profound ignorance.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Believe, Ignorance

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace; out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest; out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends; out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Sea, Faithful

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.423

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• Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

  Saint Augustine

  Self, Cities, Two

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• A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

  John Gay

  Gentleman, World, Rogues

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.59, OUP Oxford

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• When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.

  Bob Horner

  Compassion, People, Loser

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• Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

  Lord Chesterfield

  Judging, Age, Merit

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 27 February 1748

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• Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.
  To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Men, Race, Bridges

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

  Kathleen Norris

  Seven Years, May, Classic

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• I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Drunk, Lines

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

  St. Jerome

  Dinner, Clergymen, Refuse

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

  William Hazlitt

  Views, Disrespect, Prove

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.119

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Taken, Should Have

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• Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

  James David Barber

  President, Firsts, Facts

  "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

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• He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

  Saadi

  Fruit, Labor, Benefactors

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• If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.

  William Law

  Christian, World, Affection

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.7

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• Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

  John Armstrong

  Sex, Revenge, Mean

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

  Juvenal

  Laughter, Mind, Poverty

  Juvenal (1806). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes”, p.84

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• But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Responsibility, Law, Punishment

  "Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

  Aesop

  Running, Risk, Trying

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.

  Robert Southwell

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.57

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• The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

  Julien Benda

  Modern, Romanticism, Harshness

  "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 143, 1927.

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• From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

  British Medical Journal 1: 671 (1953)

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• All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Profound, Mind, Phrases

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• Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Disrespect, Triumph, Way

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• If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Independent, Rights

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