Quotes about contempt
contempt scorn
Voltaire Everything can be borne except contempt.
contempt familiarity
Martin Freeman I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.
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Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Herbert Spencer There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
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And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!
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Monica Crowley Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.
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If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.
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Danny Green I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed.
contempt familiarity
Florence King Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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I don't know how we can be in contempt when this court has not ordered us to do anything.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Only the contemptible fear contempt.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
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George Herbert To be too busie gets contempt.
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Hunter S. Thompson Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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Steven Pinker My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
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Zadie Smith Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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Pope John When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man.