Disdain Quotes
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More 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— 1640 'Mediocrity in Love Rejected'.
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.
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of— 1557 'Wyatt resteth here'.
Her melancholy seems to be fortified With a strange disdain.
john webster— 1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.1.
It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .
— John Ridley in: D. Marvin Jones Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma, ABC-CLIO, 2013, p.186
O that faint word, respect ! how I disdain it!
john dryden— 1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.
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. kennedy— Speech to the West German Parliament, Frankfurt, 25 June 1963.
Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?
Aemilia Lanyer— 1611Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.
There are few hauteurs higher than foreign reporters' disdain for those who have not shared their craft.
— 2004 What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics.
Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.
peter kropotkin— Here Kropotkin seems to be refering to the French philosopher Charles Fourier, and not the French scientist Joseph Fourier.
"Do not be a good prisoner of your Christian campus. Be a Bob Marks. BE a problem!" Concerning Marks' unwillingness to be a "meat puppet" in higher academia's disdain of intelligent design,
marks, robert j., ii— Denyse O'Leary (2009-09-08). The Great Escape A tribute to Bob Marks. Retrieved on 2010-12-09.
I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.
william styron— "A note to the reader" - This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.
gilbert keith chesterton— "A Defence of Baby-Worship"
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, “Let’s go. He’s starting to develop.”
claude debussy— Ruth Ruggles Akers, in "Vive la France, March 19" at The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra site (2010)
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 by envy could obtain.
howard, henry, earl of surrey— "Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest", line 1
Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.
ken macleod— Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 273)
When nobody in the world loves any other, naturally the strong will overpower the weak, the many will oppress the few, the wealthy will mock the poor, the honoured will disdain the humble, the cunning will deceive the simple. Therefore all the calamities, strifes, complaints, and hatred in the world have arisen out of want of mutual love. Therefore the benevolent disapproved of this want.
mozi— Book 4; Universal Love II
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— One Word is Too Often Profaned, st. 1 (1821).
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man’s estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Fury, Act I, l. 618–624.
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 64 (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010))
We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.
norman tebbit— Speech to the Institute of Directors' Annual Conference (26 February, 1985).
The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.
Matthew Arnold— Matthew Arnold, Obermann Once More, Stanza 28.
Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
In Plato and to a lesser extent in Aristotle we read that practical concerns are low and vulgar. It follows that business, as an inherently practical enterprise, is hardly worthy of esteem. Given the place of Plato and Aristotle on the intellectual landscape, we have a partial explanation of the disdain that members of the cultural elite have always exhibited toward business.
— Stephen Hicks (2003). “Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics.”Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy, Volume 3, Number 1 (Winter 2003), pp. 1?26
Then as for those who believe and do good, He will pay them fully their rewards and give them more out of His grace. And as for those who disdain and are proud, He will chastise them with a painful chastisement, And they will find for themselves besides Allah no friend nor helper.
— 173-174 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
Nothing is truly great which it is great to despise; wealth, honor, reputation, absolute power anything in short which has a lot of external trappings can never seem supremely good to the wise man because it is no small good to despise them. People who could have these advantages if they chose but disdain them out of magnanimity are admired much more than those who actually possess them.
— Ch. 7 (in: Classical and medieval literary criticism: translations and interpretations, F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1974, p. 195)
... disdain of arrogance and self-righteousness, a preference for truculent independence over prudent deference and conformity - these were the feelings that shaped his outlook on life .
— Justice Robert H. Jackson, in Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution, p.1954
"disdain is the privilege of those who, like us, have been assured by reflection of their superiority to their adversary. And where the chances are the same, knowledge fortifies courage by the contempt which is its consequence, its trust being placed, not in hope, which is the prop of the desperate, but in a judgment grounded upon existing resources, whose anticipations are more to be depended upon."
Thucydides— Book II, 2.62-[4]-[5]
