Contempt Quotes - Page 2

• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  Harold Pinter

  Smile, Views, Hands

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

  Will Durst

  Happiness, Laughter, Fear

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• People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.

  Esther Perel

  Cheating, Emotional, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Thinking, Nuts

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

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• One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

  Dorothy Allison

  Class, Backgrounds, Accustomed

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

  Apuleius

  Winning, Admiration, Familiarity

  "On the God of Socrates". Ch. 4,

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• I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Soul, Poison, Sin

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• An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Court

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  Carl Bernstein

  Ordinary, Today, Garbage

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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• The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cures

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.100, Knopf

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• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, Art, Men

  "Notebook L". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Edmund Wilson, 1945.

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• Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Odor, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Smile, Looks, Enjoyment

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• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  Notebook, 1894

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• There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Mystery, Prestige, Familiarity

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Cute, Happiness

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

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• Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

  Jean Rostand

  Respect, Fame, Renown

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

  Neil LaBute

  Guy, Privilege, Fit

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• My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

  Chaka Khan

  Philosophy, Familiarity Breeds Contempt, Familiarity

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• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Language, Poetry Is

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”, p.1

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• Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

  Tom Lantos

  Morning, Children, Two

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• In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

  Toni Morrison

  Color, Europe, Becoming

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.255, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Order, Feelings, Needs

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