#contempt

Compassion is contempt with a human face. ↗

— John McCarthy

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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

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Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? ↗

— Mitt Romney

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And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cure #only

What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should quarrel with him; I should be jealous of him; our menage would be conducted in a very ill-bred manner. A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life. ("The Lifted Veil") ↗

— Mary Ann Evans

#marriage #love

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. ↗

— Robert Crumb

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