Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Contempt Quotes
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.
I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never.
God shows His contempt for wealth by the kind of persons He selects to receive it.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
