“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.”
Evelyn Waugh
“As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.”
William Blake
“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children”
Mark Twain
“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 surely suffice.”
Albert Einstein
“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”
William Shakespeare
“Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.”
“Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
