Disdainful Quotes

#1. While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

Eugene O'Neill

#2. Just in case you're wondering," Gage says, breaking the silence, "this alliance of ours doesn't mean I like you."
"Feeling's mutual." Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

Laura Kreitzer

#3. inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a cherished way of life disappearing and beloved traditions decried by powerful, disdainful foreigners.

Karen Armstrong

#4. Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

George Allen

#5. There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

Maya Angelou

#6. Do not be deceitful.
Do not be disdainful.
Do not be distrustful.
Do not be disgraceful.
Do not be disrespectful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. You're arrogant, domineering, egotistical, and disdainful of the law."
He lifted one amused brow. "And your point would be?

J.D. Robb

#8. Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Michel De Montaigne

#9. What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie.
"Margaret."
"Which do you like the best?"
"Jo, of course."
"What silly questions you ask!" and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone

Louisa May Alcott

#10. There's something wrong here," Gared muttered. The young knight gave him a disdainful smile. "Is there?" "Can't you feel it?" Gared asked. "Listen to the darkness.

George R R Martin

#11. Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.

Dogen

#12. Why do that?" Mandi asked. "It seems like if you spent a bazillion dollars on a big house with a gorgeous view, you'd want to show it off." "The same reason that the Klingons have a cloaking device," Murphy answered. "I'm sorry, Murphy, I have a life." Mandi's tone was disdainful.

Bobby Adair

#13. Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

Michel De Montaigne

#14. The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Bernard Berenson

#15. Hattie had never been easy to love. She was too quiet, it was impossible to know what she was thinking. And she was angry all of the time and so disdainful when her high expectations weren't met.

Ayana Mathis

#16. Angela Montgomery was in the hall, shadows and her own long black hair wrapping around her. Ash could see only her face, which gave the impression that she was a beautiful human Cheshire cat, come not to smile but to look deeply disdainful of everything.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. Derek and the Wolf both watched Aubree through the one pair of eyes, the Human watching with pity while the Beast made a disdainful assessment of a weaker being.
Once Bitten Twice Shy (WIP)

Phoenix Johnson

#18. Ronan sometimes dreamt of Adam, too, the latter boy sullen and elegant and fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan's clumsy attempts to communicate.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. Wrangling the cat into the cage proved interesting, and Josie had several scratches before Clint bent down and let out a menacing growl. The cat took one look at him and with a disdainful sniff, turned to march into the cage.

Eve Langlais

#20. A teenager boy is a monstrous cyborg, an unfeeling, beastly machine, not fully human, and not housebroken. Rumbustious teenage boys are an infernal organism disdainful of everything, yet intent of contributing to human evolution.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#21. On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.

Joseph Conrad

#22. In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

Jane Hamilton

#23. Yes, grannie, you are right. You remember how old dame Hope wouldn't take the money you offered her, and dropped such a disdainful courtesy. It was SO greedy of her, wasn't it?

George MacDonald

#24. It's not for nothing that advanced mathematics tend to be invented in hot countries. It's because of the morphic resonance of all the camels who have that disdainful expression and famous curled lip as a natural result of an ability to do quadratic equations.

Terry Pratchett

#25. The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

H.L. Mencken

#26. Men's works make men disdainful, but mother nature's make men ashamed. This is the scale for their difference.

Miklos Josika

#27. The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

Julius Caesar Scaliger

#28. He alternated between ignoring me and shooting me disdainful looks that clearly said Who is this ugly off-brand non-sorority girl ruining our homo-erotic bro-times?

Tina Fey

#29. Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?

Vladimir Nabokov

#30. Disdainful of fur and fretful, privately, about the cost of his buttons, Jerott Blyth sat like the born horseman he was, and watched discreetly for trouble.

Dorothy Dunnett

#31. Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

Joanne Harris

#32. Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.

Thomas Gray

#33. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I, too, am here." However,

Thomas Ligotti

#34. Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Charles Albert Gobat

#35. She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head.

Emile Zola

#36. You're too cute sometimes. I mean, seriously too cute."
"I'm not cute. I'm aloof and manly." I lifted a disdainful eyebrow at the idea of me as cute. Ridiculous.

L. H. Cosway

#37. It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!

Anne Frank