Contempt Quotes

The shortest way to wealth is through the contempt of wealth. (Seneca)
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. View quote
Xenophon
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. View quote
Sophocles
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. View quote
Apuleius
Familiarity breeds contempt. View quote
Aesop
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. View quote
Albert Einstein
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. View quote
Mark Twain
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. View quote
William Hazlitt
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. (Orson Scott Card)
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. View quote
Thomas Paine
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. View quote
William Hazlitt
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. View quote
William Hazlitt
The lowest form of popular culture-lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives-has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. View quote
Carl Bernstein
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. (Benjamin Franklin)
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. View quote
John Steinbeck
It's very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror. View quote
Harold Pinter
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action. View quote
Thucydides
📖 Contempt Proverbs