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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.
Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.
An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.
Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
This court is in contempt of human life, dignity and justice.
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
So face with calm that heritage
And earn contempt before the age.
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
