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'.
To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications.
léon foucault— As quoted in The Life and Science of Léon Foucault : The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates (2003) by William Tobin, p. 72, ISBN 0521808553
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
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
william congreve— 1700 Lady Wishfort to Foible. The Way of the World, act 3, sc.5.
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'.
Hail, hieroglyphic State machine,Contrived to punish fancy in;Men that are men in thee can feel no pain,And all thy insignificance disdain!
Daniel Defoe— Hymn to the Pillory (1703).
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.
He had utter disdain for the Nazis and had no time for their racial purity agenda.
erich von manstein— Nuremberg Trial transcripts
"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.
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
william james— The Social Value of the College-Bred
The cover pirated the pictures on the Southern pamphlet and headlined a story whose title, “Invasion from Infinity!,” bore witness to a brash disdain of doing right as much as of blithe contempt for having been proved wrong.
ken macleod— Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 264)
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.
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.
Don't ever curdle that creamy brow with lines of easy disdain, or curl those lips with a popular sneer.
robert patrick— Robert Patrick, Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988), "One of Those People".
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
william cowper— William Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 347.
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
... 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]
disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 1, line 51.
