Contempt Quotes - Page 28

• I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Anxiety, Reign, Fool

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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• You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.

  Ida Tarbell

  Country, Suffering, Cheerful

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Philosophy, Fighting, Men

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.

  Jon Jones

  Jealous, Learning, Successful

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• I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Views, Traitor

  Remarks By George Bush at the Dedication Ceremony, www.cia.gov. April 26, 1999.

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• Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Party, Men, Looks

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• None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Despicable, Despised

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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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• Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Fashion

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• Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Greatness, Envy

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.902, Library of Alexandria

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• Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Father, Silence, House

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• The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."

  William Hurt

  Art, Thinking, Compassion

  "Interview: Emile Hirsch and William Hurt on Into the Wild". Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 2, 2007.

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• It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Looks, Look Up, Manuals

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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• You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Compassion, Empathy, Feelings

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.

  Greg Chappell

  Play, Ease, World

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• Everything can be borne except contempt.

  Voltaire

  Scorn

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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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• 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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• 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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• Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

  Mark Twight

  Attitude, Danger, Casual

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.171, The Mountaineers Books

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