A Quote by Voltaire

Everything can be borne except contempt.

Voltaire

Quote Topics

Borne Contempt Everything Except

Quote Author

Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

Edmund Burke

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.

Jean Genet

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

C. S. Lewis

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

Bjork

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 came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

Howard Mumford Jones

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

C. S. Lewis

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Jane Austen

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Margaret Mead

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

Neal A. Maxwell

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

John M. Gottman

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Jennifer Pahlka

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Dennis Potter

A Quote by Voltaire

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors