#contempt

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. ↗

— Holly Black

#contempt #trade #beauty

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life... ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#civilization #compassion #contempt #man #time

..What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering,does become The opposite of itself.. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fate #life #wish #life

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

#deeper #essence #far #head #heart

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#brought #contempt #drunk #get #i

In politics nothing is contemptible. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contemptible #nothing

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ↗