Quotes on Contempt

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Author: Aesop

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Author: Lester Bangs

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Author: Isaac Barrow

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Author: Jello Biafra

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Author: Henry Bolingbroke

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Author: Kjell Bondevik

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Author: Cesar Chavez

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Author: Mason Cooley

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

Author: Jon Crosby

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

Author: Finley Dunne

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Author: Henry Fielding

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Author: Charles Gaulle

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Author: Khalil Gibran

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Author: Chaka Khan

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Author: Neil LaBute

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

Author: Emma Lazarus

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Author: Aleksandr Lebed

Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it.

Author: Matthew Lotti

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Author: H. Mencken

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Author: Harold Pinter

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

Author: John Ratzenberger

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

Author: Mitt Romney

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Author: Jean Rostand

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Author: Lucius Seneca

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

Author: William Shakespeare

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Author: Elizabeth Stanton

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.

Author: John Steinbeck