Contempt Quotes

“Contempt of court”

“Contempt is not a thing to be despised.”

“Men despise what they do not understand.”

“Contempt leaves a deeper scar than anger.”

“Go—let thy less than woman's hand
Assume the distaff—not the brand.”

“contempt”

“Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt,
And most contemptible to shun contempt.”

“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.”

“There is always some contempt in pity. One pities poor old Oedipus, but one doesn't pity Job.”

“CONTEMPT, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.”

“How could man have such utter contempt for man? Because he had reached the point of contempt for God.”

“The spirit of contempt is the true spirit of Antichrist; for no other is more directly opposed to Christ.”

“When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,
He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.”

“There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.”

“Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.”

“I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
And with the other fling it at thy face,
Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee.”

“Nothing is so contemptible as habitual contempt. It is impossible to remain long under its control without being dwarfed by its influence.”

“Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt: the other, all pity.”

“Sympathy [often] makes up part of the feeling of contempt.… Most people are generous enough to feel some pity for the dog with some touch of the cur and mongrel in it, which finds itself in the pure-bred and often snobbish society of a dog-show.”

“The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to investigation.
• Variant: There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination.”