#contempt

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#article #contempt #in my opinion #opinion #ought

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. ↗

— Toby Young

#contempt #failure #itself #more #people

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#ass #attitude #contempt #curmudgeon #hilarious

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. ↗

— Mary Astell

#consider #contemptible #creatures #fly #god

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#am #background #class #class background #contempt

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. ↗

— George Eliot

#could #might #would

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. ↗

— John Gay

#company #contempt #dear #fit #gentleman

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized