#contempt

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cannot #comfortable #contemptible #face #feeble

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

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#associate #bad #bad men #combine #contemptible

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

— Winston Churchill

#brought #contempt #drunk #get #i

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#envy #grant #high #lie #low

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#breeds #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #free

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. ↗

— Harold Russell

#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional