Contempt Quotes - Page 8

• The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Attitude, Philosophical, Sarcasm

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Rain, Men

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  People, Contemptuous

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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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• I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Mean, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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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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• She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

  Holly Black

  Littles, Trade, Contemptuous

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• I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Heart, Mind, Wish

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press

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• Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Great Expectations, Caught

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.275

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• Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

  George R. R. Martin

  Tongue, Universal, Tyrion

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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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• "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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• Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, "I can't believe this happened to me." And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, "I must be on the wrong path." But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path?

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Movement, Conservative

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt. We [Republicans] are the number one enemy. And they will put aside whatever differences they have.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Differences, Numbers

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have been running the countries for years. They are severely declining. You can see it in voting; you can see it also in popular attitudes: contempt for what are called "the élites," the experts, the people in charge.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Country, Attitude

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.

  Jackie Mason

  People, Disrespect, Schmucks

  Source: spectator.org

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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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• 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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