SCORN

Related Subjects: Anger, Contempt, Disgrace, Indifference, Rebuke, Shame, Superiority

1. He will laugh thee to scorn.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus
   

2. Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
   Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, London
   

3. A dismal universal hiss, the sound
   Of public scorn.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

4. He despises me, I suppose, because I live in an alley: tell him his soul lives in an alley.—BEN JONSON, of James I
   

5. Scorn at first makes after-love the more.—Proverb
   

6. What! my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
   

7. But, alas! to make me
   A fixed figure for the time of scorn
   To point his slow and moving finger at!—SHAKESPEARE, Othello