Scorn Quotes - Page 3

• I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Believe, Pride, Race

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.1, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Keys, Justice

  "Scorn not the Sonnet" l. 1 (1827)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, People, Purpose

  4 Copy quote

• Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Lust, Excess, Human Nature

  6 Copy quote

• Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessed, Discipline

  19 Copy quote

• A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

  John Bercow

  Suffering, Legislature

  "Profile: Commons Speaker, John Bercow" by David Hencke, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Voice, America

  Speech at Market Hall, New York, N.Y., 22 Oct. 1847

  138 Copy quote

  Show source

• But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Glowing, Liberty

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.186

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Path, Distinction

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Equality, Erosion, Liberty

  34 Copy quote

• I scorn you, scurvy companion.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Companion

  William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (1989). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Simple, Actors, Alive

  "On Movies".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Mirrors, Want, Fool

  8 Copy quote

• Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people as a whole and based on the principle that man is the most precious of all possessions, will allow us to go forward more quickly and more harmoniously, and thus make impossible that caricature of society where all economic and political power is held in the hands of a few who regard the nation as a whole with scorn and contempt.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Men, Hands

  65 Copy quote

• There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Hate, Hatred, Affection

  54 Copy quote

• The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object Jesus, God and man, really present in the most holy Eucharist. The spirit of sacrifice, of humiliation, of scorn for self in the eyes of men, will be illuminated, supported and strengthened by the constant thought of Jesus, humiliated and despised in the Blessed Sacrament

  Pope John XXIII

  Jesus, Blessed, Eye

  Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.149, A&C Black

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way; But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.

  Walter Scott

  Fear, Lying, Book

  4 Copy quote

• I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.

  Robertson Davies

  Science, Doctors, Skins

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, People, Different

  4 Copy quote

• However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Hate, Book, Expression

  12 Copy quote

• Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Heart, Men, Order

  14 Copy quote

• Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Selfish, Hate, Heart

  5 Copy quote

• 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Behavior, Antisocial, Theft

  "Nolan Bushnell Explains Further About 'Trash'y Games" by Susan Arendt, www.wired.com. October 25, 2007.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sophisticated, Thrilling, Laughed

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.16, Atlântico Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Loss, Men, Mad

  11 Copy quote