Quotes with scorn

  • Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
  • The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
  • His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
  • 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.
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  • John Gay Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • William Congreve Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Samuel Johnson His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome 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.''
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
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  • Benito Mussolini Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Bob Woodward 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
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bob Dylan Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
    Suicide remarks are torn
    From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
    Plays wasted words, proves to warn
    That he not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Albert Camus Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Cowley Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • William Shakespeare Teach nog thy lip such scorn, for it was made for kissing.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas à Kempis The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Germaine Greer The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Dorothy Day Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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  • Akhenaton As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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