Top 218 Disdain Quotes & Sayings

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

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

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole.

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

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

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

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Indeed, the Duke of Edinburgh's disdain for his eldest son was all the more shocking because he made little or no attempt to hide it.

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

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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

It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.

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

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

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

My disdain for Trump is clear and warranted.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

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

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for NATO and his willingness to consider leaving it.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

If there's one thing Eagles and Giants fans can agree on, it's a mutual disdain for Skip Bayless.

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

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

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

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.