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Shunned by association. -- Tarryn Fisher
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. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation ... is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral ... that it is a duty and a virtue. -- John Adams
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. -- Francoise D'aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
I'm an equal opportunity despiser. -- Jesse Ventura
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. -- William Congreve
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
People who expect deference resent mere civility. -- Mason Cooley
contemptuous cough -- Anton Chekhov
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves. -- Eric Hoffer
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. -- Dorothy Allison
I hate hateful people. -- Ceelo Green
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising. -- Aldous Huxley
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. -- Rex Stout
It is an honor to be despised by fools. -- Shiho Inada
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. -- Hosea Ballou
Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable. -- Morgan Freeman
The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious. -- Michel De Montaigne
Here, brother, contempt is no use, even if he does despise Grushenka. He may despise her, but he still can't tear himself away from her. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. -- Man Ray
Children hated generously, capriciously. -- Ian Mcewan
I'm easy to hate. -- Olivia Munn
Respectless and depraved, maybe. But happily respectless, happily depraved. -- Jonathan Franzen
He who betrays other people's trust is the most contemptible man -- Khem Veasna
The fact is, those who are like everyone else arouse no hatred unless there is a reason. But when a resplendent inner self pierces the grossness that envelops it, some, quite irrationally, extend it heartfelt adoration; others, just as irrationally, try heart and soul to insult it. -- Rabindranath Tagore
There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to. -- Rick Yancey
I hate them," Sebarial said. "But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving. -- Brandon Sanderson
I'm awash in self-contempt! -- Woody Allen
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. -- Neal A. Maxwell
It's better to be hated than ignored. -- G-Dragon
Contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love. -- Herman Melville
People offend you, irritate you, breathe contempt and malice against you; do not repay them in the same way, but be gentle, meek, and kind, respectful and loving towards those very persons who behave unworthily to you. -- John Of Kronstadt
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind. -- John G. Zimmerman
Disdain is only as intense as similarity. -- Mark Helprin
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. -- Mary Astell
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile; -- Stacy Schiff
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. -- Augustine Of Hippo
A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering! -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What do you despise? By this are you truly known. -- Frank Herbert
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. -- Jonathan Swift
An intellectual hatred is the worst. -- W.b.yeats
There are more things in people that are rather worth of admiration than contempt. -- Albert Camus
Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over - expectations, or thanksgivings. -- Gary L. Thomas
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named
the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. -- Thomas Harris
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. -- Mark Twain
Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree. -- Wayne Dyer
She found him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, conceited, offensive, impertinent - and extremely ugly. The -- Victor Hugo
Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate
with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel
she cannot help being mad. -- Charlotte Bronte
It is easy to despise what you cannot get -- Aesop
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again. -- William Shakespeare
Hatred is love frustrated. -- Ashley Montagu
He's insufferable. Excruciatingly unbearable. Plain obnoxious -- J.c. Reed
contempt there, as well. She will not allow even -- Stephen King
One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All is well, everything is permitted, and nothing is hateful - these are absurd judgments -- Albert Camus
He that searches for praise will often find contempt. -- Norm Macdonald
It was not fair and therefore unworthy of my respect. It was as simple as that. -- John Cleese
Love humiliates you, hatred cradles you. -- Janet Fitch
I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions. -- George Eliot
I find you adorkable. -- Jen Mclaughlin
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. -- Miguel De Cervantes
I don't despise people. -- Will.i.am
I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have been despised by better men than you. -- George R R Martin
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust. -- William Cowper
Never despise what you don't understand. -- William Penn
covetousness. But, -- William Shakespeare
I respect those who don't secretly hate me. -- Toba Beta
Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. -- James Baldwin
Respect doesn't come without a little resentment. -- Neal Shusterman
You are insignifiant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison.
Fine. I don't like you, either. -- N.k. Jemisin
I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head. -- Anne Robinson
He was permanently impressed by the most irrelevant banalities and impossible to impress with real novelty, meaning, or conflict. And he was too moronic to be properly self-loathing
so it was my duty to loathe him instead. -- Jonathan Lethem
I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul. -- William Penn
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. -- C.s. Lewis
Superiority is always detested. -- Baltasar Gracian
I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating. -- Jacques Verges
Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. -- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency. -- Frances G. Wickes
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. -- Edward Young
To be too busie gets contempt. -- George Herbert
Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury. -- Heather Mccollum
How despicable we must seem to you -- Suzanne Collins
There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man (if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on). -- Wyndham Lewis
Shimon ben Azai said: Do not despise any person, and do not dismiss any thing, for there is no one who does not have his hour, and no thing that does not have its place. Pirkei Avot 4:3 -- Dave Mason
Never hate anyone -- Judy Wolfman
People who have been taught to despise themselves cannot easily respect others. -- Karen Armstrong
Better to be disliked than pitied. -- Abba Eban
I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me -- Caligula
To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated. -- Edmond Rostand
For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. -- Jane Austen
Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability. -- Qaisar Iqbal Janjua
I love treason but hate a traitor. -- Gaius Julius Caesar
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful. -- Pope Francis
