CONTEMPT

Related Subjects: Disgrace, Hatred, Indifference, Prejudice, Pride, Ridicule, Scorn, Shame, Sneer

1. Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man that hath not his hour, nor is there anything that bath not its place.—RABBI BEN-AZAI
   

2. Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?—Bible, John 1:46
   

3. Speak with contempt of no man. Every one hath a tender sense of reputation. And every man hath a sting, which he may, if provoked too far, dart out at one time or another.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

4. It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment, the former being never forgiven, but the latter sometimes forgot. Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never.—LORD CHESTERFIELD
   

5. The basest and meanest of all human beings are generally the most forward to despise others. So that the most contemptible are generally the most contemptuous.—FIELDING
   

6. There is not in human nature a more odious disposition than a proneness to contempt, which is a mixture of pride and ill-nature. Nor is there any which more certainly denotes a bad disposition; for in a good and benign temper, there can be no room for it. It is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart.—FIELDING
   

7. He despises men with tenderness.—ANATOLE FRANCE
   

8. None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

9. Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.—MME. DE MAINTENON
   

10. Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.—Proverb
    

11. If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.—SCHOPENHAUER
    

12. I have unlearned contempt. It is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm, feeding on all its beauty.—N. P. WILLIS