Disdain Quotes

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Tongue, Mockery

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• Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Greatness, Hatred, Replacements

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1766, Random House

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• Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Chains, Frugal, Your Freedom

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.291, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Fear, Real

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Feb 04, 2014

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

  Bill Murray

  Awards, Acting, Campaigns

  "Murray Upset at Oscar Result". www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2004.

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

  Robert Walpole

  Effort, Patriot, Despise

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• Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mean, Men, Court Judges

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

  Vera Caspary

  Humble, Reader

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• It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.

  Eric Stoltz

  Fun, Hard Times, Levels

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• Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

  Henry Clay

  Humanity, Common, Compromise

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• When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple.

  Motsi Mabuse

  Love, Strong, Humble

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• From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.133

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Pleasure, Ruling, Generous

  "Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste (Cinna or the clemency of Caesar Augustus)". Comedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), 1641.

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• Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

  William Shatner

  Reflection, Views, People

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

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Males, Divine

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• The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beauty, Appreciation, Errors

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Islamic, Kites, Sun

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Feelings, Thee, One Word

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• 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?

  William Shakespeare

  Should, Dear, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  Pat Metheny

  Creativity, Thinking, Levels

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• The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant.

  Anthony of Padua

  Wise, Children, Simple

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• The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is.  They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself.  This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole.  The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth.  It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Evil, Unity

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• For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

  Veronica Webb

  Stupid, Thinking, Games

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• Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

  Alexis Carrel

  Jesus, Our World, Atheism

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