Scorn Quotes

• I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Effort

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• Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Best Kiss

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 172

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  Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Expression, Perfect, Silence

  Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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• Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

  Nas

  Fool, Nasty, Speak

  Song: Ghetto Prisioners, Album: I Am..., 1999

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• If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

  Albert Camus

  Change, Fate, Destiny

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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• Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

  William Congreve

  Hell Hath No Fury, Mourning, Chocolate

  "The Mourning Bride". Book by William Congreve, 1697.

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892) act 3

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• It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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• You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Heart, Law

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.164, Createspace Independent Pub

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• O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Persistence, Night

  "Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fall, Fate

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• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  Frances Farmer

  Girl, People, Calling

  Collier's Magazine, May 8, 1937.

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• There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Love, Self, Littles

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• And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Profound, Aristocracy

  "Notebooks".

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• I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

  Ralph Thomas Walker

  Sanctimonious

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• A little scorn is alluring.

  William Congreve

  Littles, Alluring

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 3, sc. 5

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• Always scorn appearances and you always may.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Appearance

  Ralph Emerson (2014). “Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self-Reliance: Advice, Wit, and Wisdom from the Father of Transcendentalism”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Temples, He Man

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• O God of earth and altar,
  Bow down and hear our cry,
  Our earthly rulers falter,
  Our people drift and die;
  The walls of gold entomb us,
  The swords of scorn divide,
  Take not thy thunder from us,
  But take away our pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wall, Pride, People

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

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• We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hate, Writing, Language

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• O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

  Homer

  Children, Home, Eye

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.90

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• Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Laughing, Apparitions

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79

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• Let me arise and open the gate,
  to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
  And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
  And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
  To let in Life, and to let out Death.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Death, Gratitude

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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• There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

  G. H. Hardy

  Men, Profound, He Man

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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