#Contempt Quotes

“Thou art a Castilian King urinal!”

“If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.”

“Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!”

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.”

“'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!”

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!”

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

“For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.”

“A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!”

“I scorn you, scurvy companion.”

“Everything can be borne except contempt.”

“You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.”

“Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.”

“The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.”

“You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.”

“I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.”

“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”

“Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.”

“Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.”

“In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.”

“The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.”

“For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.”

“Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.”

“The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.”

“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”

“The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.”

“She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt”

“Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.”

“Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.”

“I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.”

“None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.”

“Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.”

“Only the contemptible fear contempt.”

“If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.”

“Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.”