Zitat des Tages über Verachtung / Scornful:
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.