Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
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.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
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.
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
