This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
Aleksandr Lebed
In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula.
Alex Berenson
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Miller
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
Alice Paul
I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.
Alissa Quart
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois
In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.
Andrew Zimmern
I do not mind if a PM or leader of the opposition is single but if he or she chooses to dispense with marriage despite living with someone and having children, then I think that shows a contempt for marriage which sends an unfortunate message.
Ann Widdecombe
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
Antonin Scalia
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Armstrong Williams
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Arthur Machen
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Arthur Murphy
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Austin O'Malley
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
Barbara Kruger
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Berthold Auerbach
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.
I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.
We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities, hatred of opposition and lies.
There is a certain belief that so long as something is published in cyberspace there is no need to respect the laws of contempt or libel. This is mistaken.
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
