(171 quotes found)
“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
“The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.”
“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”
“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Familiarity breed contempt.”
Aesop
