Quotes about contempt

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

He seemed to feel something like indulgent contempt for the rest of the world. It was all right, I suppose. Nobody had better reason. The man was a genius.

He despises me, because he knows I love him.

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with--and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with--the perceived entitlement.

Is it men’s disgust of women that makes so many of them treat women with such contempt? Is it that which makes it so easy to point out that the Don Juans and the Lotharios, for all their hunger for women, are often merely trying to see how many women they can punish?

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

Because Andy Kagle is good to me and doesn't scare me any longer, I despise him a little bit too.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.