disdain quotes

Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none.

-Thomas Carew
  'Mediocrity in Love Rejected'.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

-William Congreve
  Lady Wishfort to Foible. The Way of the World, act 3, sc.5.

Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries.We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much to disdain the future now.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
  Speech to the West German Parliament, Frankfurt, 25  Jun.

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

-Thomas Kyd
c.1589  The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest; Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain, And virtue sank the deeper in his breast; Such profit he of envy could obtain.

- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
  'Wyatt resteth here'.

Her melancholy seems to be fortified With a strange disdain.

-John Webster
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.1.