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Last updated on November 30, 2024.
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.
our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.
There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.
A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.