The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul. . . and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.
A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.
China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on its own. It does not get intimidated when Uncle Sam shakes his fist. That's scary.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.
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.
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.