Contempt Quotes - Page 7

• Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Our World, Enemy

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• If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Problem, Despise

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• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

  Saint Augustine

  Pride, Proud, Source

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.217, Oxford Paperbacks

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• What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

  Woody Allen

  Light, Average, Giving

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• The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

  Michael Scott

  Weakness, Emotion, Humans

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.224, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons.
  So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

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• To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

  Richard Linklater

  Passion, Self, Profound

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• Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and a terrible sickly dependence on each other’s weakness- that’s why. That’s why I couldn’t stop laughing about the Inability to Love, and that’s why I can’t stand to let you touch me, and that’s why I’ll never again believe in anything you think, let alone anything you say

  Richard Yates

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

  Philip K. Dick

  Three, Planets

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

  Martin Amis

  Pride, Envy, Boredom

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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• For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

  Patrick Süskind

  Brother, Hate, Heart

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• all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Men, Murder

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.262, Bantam

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• Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

  Anne Bronte

  Prayer, Heart, Past

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.212, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

  Robert Fulghum

  Memories, Home, Self

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• A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

  Man Ray

  Ideas, Realization, Certain

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• "Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

  Pema Chodron

  Karma, Grateful, People

  "Start where You are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• Familiarity seems to breed contempt

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Seems, Familiarity

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.254, Ballantine Books

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• We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

  Adrienne Rich

  Lying, Men, Political

  Adrienne Cécile Rich (1977). “Women and honor: some notes on lying”

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• Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

  Horace

  Nature, Science, Foolish

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• Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Self Esteem, Heaven, Delight

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• Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, People, Age

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.130

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• The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

  Wyatt Earp

  Gun, Men, Play

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• The attack upon Korea was an outright breach of the peace and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. By their actions in Korea, Communist leaders have demonstrated their contempt for the basic moral principles on which the United Nations is founded. This is a direct challenge to the efforts of the free nations to build the kind of world in which men can live in freedom and peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Korea, Usa

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that you see from people on Wall Street, their dismissal and their almost contempt for the concerns about their culpability in the financial crisis, about the income inequality, shows that they are completely out of touch.

  Robin Wells

  Wall, Believe, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ruins, Manners, States

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244

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