Best Contempt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 17

Source: I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated

“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”

People Thinking America Contempt Meritocracy

Author:Toby Young

“If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.”

Ifs Problem Poverty Rich Gains Universal Constant Property Cease Admiration Contempt Exclusive Lackeys

Author:William Godwin

“Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.”

Source: The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern

“Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.”

Giving Looks Shows Politics President Judging Tvs Give Me Objectives Contempt Reporters Tv Shows Federal Judges

Book:If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

“Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.”

Prison Contempt Jailer

Author:Brendan Behan

“Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.”

Flow Rivers Admiration Contempt Flattery Aeroplanes Flattered

Author:Minna Antrim

“The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.”

Children Responsibility Liberty Industry Machines Contempt Taking Responsibility Dystopian Surveillance Civil Liberties Own Business Copyright Parasites

Author:Rick Falkvinge

“What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?”

House Causes Natural Youth Huge Wall Draws Harm Stores Contempt Passages Coal Stairs Graffiti Wanton Chalk Draught

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.”

Doe Contempt Familiarity

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.”

Men Said Differences Bravery Praise Mere Wide Contempt Elders Foolhardy True Courage Cato

Author:Plutarch

“Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.”

Institutions Admiration Contempt Dislike Foreigners

Book:Outspoken essays

Source: Outspoken essays

“There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.”

Thinking Doe Stills Poor Contempt

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.”

Men Remember Forever Crime Pride Forgiveness Weakness Discovery Careful Silly Intimate Contempt Forgiven

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.”

Men Play Fun Pleasure Fit Degrees Laughter Jokes Horse Fellows Loud Merit Contempt Familiarity Respectable Merry Respectable Man

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.”

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“We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.”