Contempt Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.