Kenneth Williams - William Shakespeare - Aesop - Alice Miller - Philip Stanhope - Mark Twain - Lucius Seneca - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Albert Einstein -
68,367. I have a secret contempt for all weakness, including my own. Kenneth Williams, Fantabulosa! BBC
68,368. What our contempts doth often hurl from us
We wish it ours again. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra I ii 116-117, Antony
68,369. Contempt and clamour
Will be my knell. William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale I ii 190-191, Leontes
68,370. Familiarity breeds contempt. (Contempt & Familiar) Aesop
68,371. Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Miller
68,372. There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. (Contempt & Insult) Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
68,373. Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. (Contempt & Familiar & Children) Mark Twain
68,374. Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. (Contempt & Danger & Exposure) Lucius Annaeus Seneca
68,375. I have a proud character that cannot bear contempt. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
825. To punish me for my contempt for authority, Fate made me an authority myself. (Authority & Contempt) Albert Einstein