CONTEMPT QUOTES II

quotations about contempt

It took two years for my contempt to turn to compassion.
And with mascara tears,
She cried I will not survive without you.

GRADE

"For the Memory of Love", Under the Radar


It is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she should look on us with contempt.

MARCEL PROUST

Swann's Way


Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

EDMUND BURKE

"Letters on a Regicide Peace"


Contempt, because it feels more powerful has always helped us feel safer and more powerful than the anxiety we feel when we experience shame.

WENDY MAHILL

Growing a Passionate Heart


Your contempt and your sarcasm
It's all so transparent
Why don't you give up the act now, kid
Woo, and let some love in?

EELS

"Paradise Blues", End Times


A look of contempt
It's just a passing wave

HELL IS FOR HEROES

"Models for the Programme", Transmit Disrupt


Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short.

ELIZABETH GOUDGE

Green Dolphin Street


The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

JAMES BALDWIN

Giovanni's Room


I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy.

CRISS JAMI

Killosophy


Contempt paints its victims as buffoons worthy of mockery or as nonpersons worthy of complete disregard.

RICHARD J. DAVIDSON

Handbook of Affective Sciences


We're burnin' down your city
The message has been sent
Angels without pity
We hold you in contempt

ALICE COOPER

"You and All of Your Friends", Paranormal


The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

H.L. MENCKEN

Minority Report


Contempt is often said to be a "cool" emotion, relative to the heat of anger or the visceral power of disgust. Contempt motivates neither attack nor withdrawel; rather, it seems to cause social-cognitive changes such that the object of contempt will be treated with less warmth, respect, and consideration in future interactions.

RICHARD J. DAVIDSON

Handbook of Affective Sciences


I clench my teeth and realize
My world is so near its demise
A dying sun in a poisonous sky, straining my eyes
Burning with contempt and conflict

FEAR FACTORY

"Body Hammer"


Contempt mates well with pity.

GLORIA NAYLOR

Linden Hills


To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

aphorism for a friend, Sep. 18, 1930


Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt,
And most contemptible to shun contempt.

ALEXANDER POPE

Moral Essays


Contempt is a lifestyle.

GOD FORBID

"Better Days"


What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering, does become
The opposite of itself.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Antony and Cleopatra


Fear is contempt, whether the fearful know it or don't.

ADAM LEVI

The Instructions