Top Contempt Quotes

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your gre...

Contempt Definition

(n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

(n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.

(n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.

(n.) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.

People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not saying...

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.

It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of considering just what effect this mutual contempt has on either th...

Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each...

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

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