#scorn

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ↗

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#criminal #disclosures #fact #held #his

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#growing up #irish #learn #made #now

On the porch were the still-smoking remains of long-stemmed roses, evidence that someone angry and passive-aggressive didn't know Peter was out of town. ↗

— Theric Jepson

#anger #byu #dating #flowers #humor

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#bewail #ceaseless #effort #human #human actions

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#desires #especially #female #had #her

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#billions #blow #burdened #our #return

Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned. ↗