Contemn Quotes

#1. Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.

Francis Quarles

#2. That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe.

Hilaire Belloc

#3. The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

William Blake

#4. Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Edward Young

#5. Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.

Samuel Johnson

#6. He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. I don't think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don't think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.

Gene Weingarten

#8. I don't know. It depends on the day. Depends on the hour of the day ... I don't really know if I really want to do that. I think I do and then I think I don't. It makes me really nervous to think about really doing it.

Elizabeth Berg

#9. Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

Umar

#10. Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated ...

Dieter Rams

#11. Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd
Please daily, and whose novelty survives
Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

William Cowper

#12. Kristy smiles at both of us, the kind of smile that makes Julie Andrews look like a jaded crack whore.

Hannah Johnson

#13. When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

Robert A. Heinlein