There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.
Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.
His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.
The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.