#scorn

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#pity #scorn #imagination

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#aggressive #anxious #arrogant #his #man

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. ↗

— Albert Camus

#courage #indifference #nobility #profound #real

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#i #just #less #mean #means

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#courage #covered #his #last #man

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

— William Congreve

#amiss #disdain #little #scorn

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#believing #best #big-time #childhood #ever

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #call #cup #dear #desire

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#hath #hell #liberal #like #scorned

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#criticism #explain #exposition #justifiable #make