Quotes with counter-contempt

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  • John Gay A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • August Strindberg Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Bethenny Frankel Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Guy Debord Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Seneca Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bertrand Russell Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alice Duer Miller Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Armstrong Williams Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus Familiarity breeds contempt.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Mark Twain Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ignazio Silone Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
    Ignazio Silone
    Italian writer and politician (ps by Secondo Tranquilli) (1900 - 1978)
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  • Grace Speare For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Austin O'Malley God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Albert Einstein He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sir William Watson His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes - cats - I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
    Sir William Watson
    English poet (1858 - 1935)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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