Breeds Contempt Quotes

#1. Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the
government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it
invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis

#2. Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

Oli Anderson

#3. With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

Steven Erikson

#4. It is the leader's job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. "Model" the behaviors is key. "Do as I say" only breeds contempt from others.

Beth Ramsay

#5. But if familiarity breeds contempt, it also fosters a bond -

James St. James

#6. Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana

#7. Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Mark Twain

#8. But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Michael Stipe

#9. Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom.

Sherry Argov

#10. Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Noel Coward

#11. Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

Archibald Rutledge

#12. 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.

Mark Twain

#13. '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.

Jon Crosby

#14. My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Chaka Khan

#15. Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Apuleius

#16. Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you're just as human as they are. That's when the madness sets in. They can't understand why you have more than they do when you're just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Charles De Gaulle

#18. Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.

Gautama Buddha

#19. Crime is contagious ... if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Louis D. Brandeis

#20. Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

Stewart Udall

#21. Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.

Amanda Craig

#22. I believe in the understanding of difficult situations, difficult music, or any kind of difficulties, through familiarity. Familiarity, in this case, does not breed contempt, but breeds understanding.

Daniel Barenboim, Edward W. Said

#23. 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.

Martin Freeman

#24. When anger is repressed by reason of inability to do immediate harm, it retires into the heart in the form of malice and breeds these vices - envy, triumph over the enemy's ill, repulsion of friendly approaches, contempt, slander, derision, personal violence, and injustice. MURDER

John Wortabet

#25. Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

Martin Freeman

#26. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Roy Hattersley