Disdain Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Idries Shah

  Attitude, Culture, Causes

  Idries Shah (1974). “The Elephant in the Dark”, p.11, Octagon Press Ltd

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• There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

  Jason Mantzoukas

  Teacher, Kids, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.201

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• I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable.

  Gavin McInnes

  Fun, Hipster, Kids

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• A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.

  John William Draper

  Men, Views, Intellectual

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton

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• Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

  George Croly

  Heart, Order, Mind

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• All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

  Henry Clay

  Government, Humanity, Weakness

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• A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Dark, Men

  Isaac Watts, Joseph Emerson (1855). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.29

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Grief, Mind, All Time

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.48, Library of America

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• Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Grief, Agony, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.342

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thinking, Age, Spirit

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• 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.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Reading, People, Rooms

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• Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

  Ruth Stout

  Dream, Lying, Up Early

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).

  Sarah Vowell

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Children, Father

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.42, 谷月社

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

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Boring, Treated

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Boys, Healthy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.31

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• The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

  Peter Thomas Bauer

  Hands, People, Ordinary

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• I have such disdain for anybody who gets joy out of blowing the stuffing out of a little woodland creature, that I don't really care if any of them gets shot.

  Bill Maher

  Joy, Care, Littles

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• There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

  Henry Fairlie

  America, Television, Praise

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• Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hair, People, Office

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• Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

  James Altucher

  Hate, Book, Boss

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• All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Past, Annoyed

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.37, U of Nebraska Press

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• I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive.

  Jack Kelly

  Thinking, Government, Self

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