Quotes of Scorn - somelinesforyou

“ I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ”

- Henry Wheeler Shaw

“ Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. ”

- Alexander Pushkin

“ As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. ”

- Bible

“ Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ A root is a flower that disdains fame. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ We cannot hate those who we despise. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? - Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We often despise what is most useful to us. ”

- Aesop

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

- Khalil Gibran

“ Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ I'm demanding that they charge me with contempt and with perjury, I'm demanding it. ”

- George Galloway

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

- Matthew

“ He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ”

- Milton Friedman

“ Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ”

- Mary Ellen Kelly

“ Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. ”

- Cervantes

“ Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. ”

- Azel Backus

“ Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ”

- Dick Gregory

“ There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ”

- William Congreve

“ A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ”

- Mark Twain

“ O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. ”

- Aeschylus

“ He will laugh thee to scorn. ”

- Bible

“ Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. ”

- William Congreve
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