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Tag Name "Contempt" (402)

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Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.
Herman Melville
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Contempt mates well with pity.
Gloria Naylor
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Miller
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Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
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Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
Mason Cooley
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
Edmund Burke
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Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.
James Lileks
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Contempt the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Ambrose Bierce
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Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
Ann Coulter
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Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
George R. R. Martin
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
Edmund Burke
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Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.
Jonathan Franzen
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Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.
James Laver
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Joseph Priestley
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We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
James M. Barrie
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Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.
Julie Klausner
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt
Jane Austen
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O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
Juvenal
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I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Karl Marx
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We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
Jennifer Pahlka
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Khalil Gibran
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