contempt quotes

• Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power. (Jean Baudrillard) [politicians/power/contempt/people]
• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. (Thomas Carlyle) [more/contempt/essence/love]
• For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [company/pleasure/contempt/think]
• Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [contempt/pride/weakness/more]
• There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [people/more/contempt]
• Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [speak/contempt]
• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [wife/willpower/contempt]
• I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. (Winston Churchill) [contempt/people]
• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. (Albert Einstein) [music/contempt/brain/mistake]
• Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. (Benjamin Franklin) [pride/vanity/contempt]
• A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. (John Gay) [company/contempt]
• To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. (William Hazlitt) [being/contempt]
• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. (William Hazlitt) [contempt]
• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. (William Hazlitt) [contempt/parents]
• Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority. (David Hume) [people/contempt/goodwill/attention]
• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. (Samuel Johnson) [fortune/contempt/more/pity]
• The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. (H. L. Mencken) [contempt]
• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them? (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [youth/contempt]
• Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [benefits/virtue/contempt/death]
• Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. ( Plutarch) [courage/contempt/life]
• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. ( Seneca) [willpower/contempt]
• Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. (Mark Twain) [contempt]
• My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. (Chaka Khan) [philosophy/contempt]
• Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. (Cesar Chavez) [culture/contempt]
• Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. (Jack Kevorkian) [contempt]
• What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. (Jack Kevorkian) [enjoyment/contempt/smile]
• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care. (Jack Kevorkian) [contempt/care]

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