Contempt Quotes - Page 28

• When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.

  Bob Horner

  Compassion, People, Loser

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• there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Laughter, Book, Play

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Play, Doe, Pity

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Hollywood, Standards, Audience

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• One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

  Thomas Gray

  Age, Vices, Fame

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1866). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. [With “The Life of Thomas Gray. By John Mitford”.]”, p.152

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• From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

  British Medical Journal 1: 671 (1953)

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• You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.

  Ida Tarbell

  Country, Suffering, Cheerful

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

  William Hazlitt

  Views, Disrespect, Prove

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.119

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• Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance.
  That's not to say it's always going to be easy or you won't have to work through issues.
  But when a horse is troubled or uncomfortable in our world, rather than show contempt for him, you must demonstrate empathy and work to convince him that you mean him no harm.
  You have some things that you'd like him to do 'with you', as opposed to 'for you'- and the best way to do that is as partners.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mean, Thinking

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• Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

  John G. Zimmerman

  Pride, Disrespect, Incivility

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• Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, School, Thinking

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son" by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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• I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Might, Objectifying

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

  Henry Rollins

  Friday, Fighting, People

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• Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heroism, Lasts, Prudent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Drunk, Lines

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Some evils are cured by contempt.

  George Herbert

  Hate, Evil, Hatred

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

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• I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. Its unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium weve got right now.

  Michael Moriarty

  Attitude, Hate, People

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• That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

  St. Jerome

  Dinner, Clergymen, Refuse

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.
  To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Men, Race, Bridges

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Anxiety, Reign, Fool

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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• It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.

  William Benton Clulow

  Success, Merit, Advantage

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.154

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• Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

  Lord Chesterfield

  Judging, Age, Merit

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 27 February 1748

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• When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.

  Claudius Aelianus

  Mean, Arrogance, Dresses

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• Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Thinking, Everyday Things

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• All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Profound, Mind, Phrases

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