Disparagement Quotes

#1. Tears of tenderness and affection are no disparagement at all, even to great and wise men.

Matthew Henry

#2. Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

George Will

#3. There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.

S.J Perelman

#4. It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

William Wordsworth

#6. Brains. Brains. What do we really mean by the term? In your idiom you would say that Jane Wilkinson has the brains of a rabbit. That is a term of disparagement. But consider the rabbit for a moment. He exists and multiplies, does he not? That, in Nature, is a sign of mental superiority.

Agatha Christie

#7. All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Conrad Black

#8. To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

Pierre Charron

#9. The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.

Max Horkheimer

#10. For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

John Steinbeck

#11. Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

Georgette Heyer

#12. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Abraham Cowley

#13. A grasp of the psychological mechanism behind taste will not necessarily change our sense of what we find beautiful, but it can prevent us from reacting to what we don't like with simple disparagement

Alain De Botton

#14. Communication and Connection Skillful Self-Expression What Do We Want? The Culture of Disparagement Appreciative Inquiry Gossip Paying Attention The Realm of Email Teamwork The Ripple Effect

Sharon Salzberg

#15. Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

Isaac Barrow

#16. Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

John Tillotson

#17. Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

George Stillman Hillard

#18. In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey, you should see me in a crown.

Stephen Thompson

#19. The most interestingly odd thing about education is that one too often realises its importance in life long after one's youthful days of education are over.

Q.M. Sidd

#20. On Friday night, it was fun [to know] that if you bombed, or whatever was going on, that you'd be on TV at 11. It was a cool feeling, and you'd get a couple hundred dollars.

John Mulaney

#21. I traced the marley floor with my pointe shoes, and imagine myself on the stage, not as a member of the corps, but as a principal dancer. It felt right. It felt like a promise. Some day, somehow, it was going to happen for me.

Misty Copeland

#22. My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Zora Neale Hurston

#23. Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

Jody Lynn Nye

#24. The difference between science fiction and fantasy ... is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

Orson Scott Card

#25. Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#26. Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone
glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away
Is this the whole?

Lord Byron

#27. Of all the things I've done, the first 'Strongman' story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It's almost a 'Dark Knight Returns' riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman.

Charles Soule

#28. I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life.

Beatrix Potter