if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.
The universal religion - contempt for women.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Tolerance is a placid contempt.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply. . . humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.
We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.
all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.