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Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.
Not wanting to suffer criticism, the judiciary has used its power of contempt to stifle criticism.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.