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Here are the quotes with the word contempt in them. Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair. — Ira Gershwin Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head. — Arthur Schopenhauer Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroghs

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

-Ira Gershwin

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Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

-Edgar Rice Burroghs

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

-F.Scott Fitzgerald

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If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

-Martin C. Smith

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

-Gilbert K.Chesterton

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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

-Xenophon

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America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

-Toby Young

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Only the contemptible fear contempt.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

-Will Durst

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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

-Nicolaus Copernicus

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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

-Plutarch

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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

-Louis D.Brandeis

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

-Bertrand Russell

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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

-Christopher Hitchens

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

-Thomas Carlyle

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Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

-Tom Lantos

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

-Albert Einstein

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

-William Hazlitt

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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

-Malcolm Turnbull

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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

-Jean Rostand

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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

-Harold Pinter

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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

-Jack Kevorkian

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More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

-John Hall

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair. — Ira Gershwin
Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroghs

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