Contempt Quotes

In politics nothing is contemptible.

An appeal, Hinnissy, is where ye ask wan coort to show its contempt f’r another coort.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

I have found by long experience, that there are few enterprises so hopeless as contests with the fashion, in which the opponents are not only made confident by their numbers and strong by their union, but are hardened by contempt of their antagonist, whom they always look upon as a wretch of low notions, contracted […]

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.