Scorn Quotations

Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

Throughout a lot of the black community, he was an object of derision and scorn because of the way Ali treated him. It was cruel.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

One kind of man I impatiently scorn is the kind that looks bored if I mention Ibsen or ceramics or Aztec civilization but is interested instantly, alertly, if I mention my garters

(Joe) Clark managed to win, but then he blew it so quickly and became an object of scorn and derision, ... But because he lost and was out of it, they liked him, too. If you were a Conservative leader who won, different story. And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Do not scorn little victories.

Better that they had ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn

I've made small investments in these things and some of them have been very successful. Others have been terrible, ... No one ever asks me about the losses, but they have really held up to public scorn the successes, and the scorn covered the people who allowed me to invest with them.

Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.

And there's a sunset over the mountainsI shout my scorn to the splendorous skyFor how does this light compare to all the world's suffering.

Your enemies will speak many unmentionable words and scorn your ability. What could be more painful than this? / You will go to heaven if killed, or you will enjoy the earth if victorious. Therefore, get up with a determination to fight, O Arjuna.

Think not for this, however, the poor treasonOf my stout blood against my staggering brain,I shall remember you with love, or seasonMy scorn with pity - let me make it plain:I find this frenzy insufficient reasonFor conversation when we meet again.

It is the height of hypocrisy for George Bush and others to mourn a human rights leader and scorn the movement she represents. It's ironic that someone who supports wiretapping will be here among the people who were victims of wiretapping in the 1960s.

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.

Each one eats to assuage his own hunger; so too, each one must discover the best way to appease his own spiritual hunger. Do not be led away by the scorn of others, or by the recommendations of others.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

In my field, you can't really wear the same dress twice unless you want Isaac Mizrahi to scorn you on TV.

In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

A leader with dirty hands is respected by all he leads; a manager with clean nails is the scorn of all who work under him.

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

A little scorn is alluring.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

I scorn you, scurvy companion.

True artists scorn nothing.

O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.