All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Everything can be borne except contempt.
I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which others can be tormented. . . . Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil.
I feel your scorn, and I accept it.
When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.
Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.
Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
I scorn you, scurvy companion.
To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.
Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!