#disdain

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. ↗

— Jane Austen

#compliments #discussion #disdain #intelligence #opposition

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#become #corruptions #disdain #far #men

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #despise #disdain #efforts #i

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#attractive #beauty #belief #body #common

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#authority #because #convinced #disdain #good

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. ↗

— William Congreve

#amiss #disdain #little #scorn

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disdain #few #generous #having #pleasures

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy. ↗

— Laura Linney

#crazy #disdain #find #i #whole

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world. ↗

— Trent Lott

#cannot #dictators #disdain #forget #granted