Top Contempt Quotes
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Lester Bangs
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon
Aleksandr Lebed 
Quentin Crisp 
William Hazlitt 
Dorothy Allison 
Mason Cooley 
Czeslaw Milosz 
Harold Russell 
William Shakespeare All Contempt Quotes
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare 
80% of people like this quote
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison
64% of people like this quote
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Lester Bangs
62% of people like this quote
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus
61% of people like this quote
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon
61% of people like this quote
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Jello Biafra
60% of people like this quote
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
Aleksandr Lebed
60% of people like this quote
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Roy Hattersley
59% of people like this quote
Popular Contempt Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheMason CooleyWilliam ShakespeareMark TwainSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroWinston ChurchillThomas CarlyleH. L. MenckenGilbert K. ChestertonBertrand RussellWilliam Hazlitt
Kahlil GibranArthur SchopenhauerLord ChesterfieldPublilius SyrusMarshall McLuhanF. Scott FitzgeraldCharles de GaulleNiccolo MachiavelliKarl KrausJean Rostand AesopToni MorrisonHenry FieldingJohn SteinbeckQuentin Crisp
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