Disdain Quotes - Page 4

• Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

  Willis Regier

  Eye, Sagging, Bears

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press

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• The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.

  David Hume

  Heart, Passion, Poetry

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.453

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• In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Media

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• The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

  Claire McCaskill

  Reality, White, America

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• Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Suffering, Glory

  "Meditations on the Cross". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 3, 1996.

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• I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

  Hans Kung

  Goodbye, Moving, Time To Move On

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Kung: 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

  Burton Silverman

  Taken, Museums, People

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• Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Pain, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.648

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• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

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• Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

  Thomas Gray

  Adventure, Littles, Reign

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• In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pride, Arrogance, Prosperity

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 B.C..

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• I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Heartbroken, Wall, Believe

  "Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One-Night Stand of a Life". www.thecut.com. January 6, 2013.

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• Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Kings, Disappear, Should

  Thomas De Quincey (1826). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. By T. De Quincey”, p.90

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• I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth; The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs; His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon; His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept. Weep not, child! cried my mother, for that man Has said, 'There is no God.'

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Atheist, Children

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.429, JHU Press

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• Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

  Francois Rabelais

  Philosophical, Hazards, Spirit

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• The women take so little stock
  In what I do or say
  They'd sooner leave their cosseting
  To hear a jackass bray.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Littles, Jackasses

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.14, Hayes Barton Press

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• Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Independence, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.365, Oxford University Press

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• No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

  Derek R. Audette

  Art, Matter, Stills

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• Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Spirit-Filled Family”, Harvest House Pub

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• Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don’t apply some of the
  medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.

  T. D. Jakes

  Sacrifice, Self, Medicine

  T. D. Jakes (2011). “Hope for Every Moment: 365 Inspirational Thoughts for Every Day of the Year”, p.4, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

  John Ruskin

  Art, Stupid, Eye

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Stars, Hate, Fascination

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• Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

  David Hume

  Art, Kitsch, Taste

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• If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

  Erica Jong

  Moving, Careers, Dying

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.59, Penguin

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• Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Would Be, Height, Too Much

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