Quotes tagged ‘contempt’

“Richard Schultz: Do you have contempt for your government? Abbie Hoffman: I think the institutions of our democracy are wonderful things, that right now are populated by some terrible people.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Abbie Hoffman, Sacha Baron Cohen, imdb.com

“From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feeling of others made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.”

— Deborah Moggach, Elizabeth Bennet, Keira Knightley, imdb.com

“Mr. Robinson: Do you ummm... do you want to tell me why you did it? Benjamin: Mr. Robinson! Mr. Robinson: Do you have a special grudge against me? Do you feel a particularly strong resentment? Is there something I've said that's caused this contempt, or is it just things I stand for that you despise…”

— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, imdb.com

“One remembers those one looks up to more readily than those you look down upon.”

— Steven Knight, James Keziah Delaney, Tom Hardy, imdb.com

“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, en.wikiquote.org

“The man who has learned the great truth that the method of God with his world is the method of evolution, of growth, of slow and steady advance, has also learned not to look with contempt upon the past.”

— Minot Savage, archive.org

“You know what I've come to realize? I'm not just bored. I genuinely dislike her.”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people- not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul, as evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever grate upon ou…”

— Thomas Wolfe, unz.org

“Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.”

— Henning Mankell, amazon.com

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com