(171 quotes found)
“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
Thomas Carlyle
“for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.”
Albert Einstein
“What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?”
Kahlil Gibran
“Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.”
Jason Zebehazy
“The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.”
Lester Bangs
“Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes”
David Hume
“An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.”
Albert Guerard
“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”
Joseph Addison
“What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.”
Joseph Priestley
