I leave you the best phrases of contempt from excellent authors such as Francis Bacon, Mark Twain, Albert Camus, Voltaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein and many more.
You may also be interested in these phrases of hypocrisy or these of admiration.
-Everything is bearable except contempt. –Voltaire.
- Contempt is not something to be hated. It can be borne with a calm and impartial mind. –Edmund Burke.
-The man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. –Friedrich Nietzsche.
-Only the despicable fear of contempt. –François de la Rochefoucauld.
-It is great and manly to despise deception, it shows our spirit and shows our strength. –Edward Young.
-A man can bear a world of contempt when he has what makes him worthy. When you despise yourself, that's when hell burns. –Alexander Smith.
-Anger and hatred towards those we love steals our hearts, but contempt and pity leave us speechless and ashamed. –Edgar Rice Burroughs.
-The incurable wounds are those inflicted by the tongue, the eyes, the mockery and the contempt. –Honoré de Balzac.
-Hatred requires contempt. Contempt is the nectar of hatred. –Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
-Moral contempt is an indignity and insult much greater than any type of crime. -Friedrich Nietzsche.
-Mistakes are usually forgiven, but contempt never. Our pride remembers it forever. "Lord Chesterfield."
-Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. –Berthold Auerbach.
- Contempt goes well with pity. –Gloria Naylor.
Contempt is the emotion we feel towards an opponent whose arguments are too impressive to refute. –Ann Coulter.
-To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority. -Albert Einstein.
-Disregard for happiness is usually contempt for the happiness of other people, and is a fancy disguise for hatred for humanity. –Bertrand Russell.
-The cheerful allows the soul to be in the present, allows it to despise worrying about the problems that lie beyond it, and tempers bitterness with laughter. -Horacio.
-Style despises comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue. –Mason Cooley.
-Be satisfied with how nature made you, or you risk being despised for trying to be something you are not. -Aesop.
-True nobility is based on contempt, bravery and deep indifference. –Albert Camus.
-Don't show fear of your enemies, just contempt. Don't let anyone look down on you. You are as good as any of them. –Sherrilyn Kenyon.
-An apology may be despised, but it retains its inherent value.
-We must bear the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. –Neal Maxwell.
-Human nature is the same everywhere. She consecrates success and has nothing but contempt for defeat. -Mark Twain.
-Hate the diversity of skin colors is to despise the divine creative imagination of God. To honor it consciously is to appreciate a beautiful diversity, inspired by love. –TF Hodge.
- There can be no prestige without mystery, since familiarity breeds contempt. –Charles de Gaulle.
-Love towards glory can only create a great hero, while contempt for glory creates a great man. –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand.
-The best response to gossip is silent contempt. –Jules Renard.
-The most beautiful and good things have been made by women that people despise. –Gillian Flynn.
-I sympathize with shy men who feel the pain of undeserved contempt and disdain, and bear marks on a flushed face of unnecessary shame and self-imposed disgrace. –William Cowper.
-We prefer the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated and the tangible. By contrast, we despise the abstract. –Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
-The antipathy, the difference of points of view, hatred and contempt can accompany true love. –Marshal McLuhan.
-To preserve our own culture, it is not necessary to despise or disrespect other cultures. -Cesar Chavez.
-Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. –Kjell Magne Bondevik.
-The human race has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the age of caves. However, every attempt to change this is met with contempt. –Neale Donald Walsch.
- Contempt is a well-known defensive reaction. –JR Richards.
-You cannot reason with the heart, it has its own laws and impediments on things that the intellect despises. -Mark Twain.
-Don't show your lips such contempt, since they were made to kiss, not to repudiate. -William Shakespeare.
-The spirit of the age is full of contempt for thought. –Albert Schweitzer.
-No one is more arrogant towards women, more aggressive and more obnoxious than a man anxious for his virility. –Simone de Beauvoir.
-The way to silence the mouth of a slanderer is to treat him with contempt. –Proverbs 23: 9.
-We must not despise those whose fear is greater than ours. –Warren Eyster.
-It is not possible to influence those towards whom you have an underlying hatred. –Martin Luther King Jr.
-Greatness begins with the replacement of hatred with a polite contempt. –Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
-Avoid the ordinary, despise the banality. -Chuck Jones.
-For both parties to a controversy, the most unpleasant way to get revenge is to shut up and look annoyed, since the aggressor usually interprets this as a sign of contempt. –Friedrich Nietzsche.
- Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against the undesirable own feelings that we hate. –Alice Miller
-I have made an incessant effort not to ridicule, regret, or despise human actions, if not to understand them. –Baruch Spinoza.
-S contempt is that feeling of a prudent man towards an enemy who is too formidable to fight it safely. –Ambrose Pierce.
-Those who revere the old days are nothing more than a contempt for the new. –Francis Bacon.
-The contempt of a genius is the most arrogant and excessive contempt of all. –Ouida.
-There is nothing that people tolerate more impatiently or forgive less than contempt. A wound is more readily forgiven than an insult. "Lord Chesterfield."
- Contempt is like a type of gangrene, that if it takes over a certain part of the person, it will gradually corrupt the rest of it. –Samuel Johnson.
-True eloquence despises eloquence. –Blaise Pascal.
-The mind that is too prone to contempt and disapproval, I must say, is like a clenched fist that can strike, but deprives itself of receiving and holding all that is precious. –George Eliot.
-From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are heirs, and therefore prisoners of attitudes of contempt and disdain towards other faiths, perspectives that are not worth mentioning. –Idries Shah
-The ultimate sin of any artist is contempt for his audience. –Lester Bangs.
-Walk with proud contempt for the swamp of human inadmissibility. –Joachim Peiper.
-Some people serve with pride, because they want to and want to do their best. Other people serve with contempt because they "have" to do their job. –Jeffrey Gitomer.
-Nothing that lives should be treated with contempt, be it a human, a tree or a bird. They must be treated with kindness because their life is short. Civility is synonymous with respect for life. –Elizabeth Goudge.
-He who despises the power of intuition will never be above the levels of a worker's calculator. -Albert Einstein.
-I feel your contempt and I accept it. –Jon Stewart.
-Anger makes a man hated and a poor man despised. –Thomas Fuller.
-If one cannot accept failure and contempt, how can he make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying. –Russel Edson.
-We must ensure that enthusiasm for the future does not provoke contempt for the past. - Pope Paul VI.
-No man can fall into contempt more than those who deserve it. –Samuel Johnson.
-Silence is the most perfect expression of contempt.
-People deceive each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, disrespect, years of refusing privacy. The word deception doesn't even begin to describe the ways in which people disappoint one another. –Esther Perel.
-Pride spoils its own purpose, since it leads a man who seeks esteem and reverence to contempt. –Henry Bolingbroke.
-There is no room in the universe for the slightest contempt and pride, only for a kind and respectful heart. -James Martineau.
-S contempt is our failure to show due respect for something that other people consider important.
-It is a rare and beautiful thing to offer love in situations that most people would choose to despise or ignore. –Lysa Ter Keurst.
-Hatred is a matter of the heart, while contempt is of the mind. –Arthur Schopenhauer.
-There is an old and very wise saying of the Native Americans: "Every time you point a finger as a sign of contempt, three fingers point back towards you." –Alyson Noel.
- Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania, it despises healthy eating, it allows itself to drink from the strong drink of the accusation and promotes an artificial dejection that craves for a stronger drink. –Rabindranath Tagore.
-Eyebrows make up only a small part of people's faces, and even then they can obscure someone's entire life because of the contempt they show. -Demetrio.
-Don't talk to fools, they despise the wisdom of your words. –Nas
-The contempt for today is proof that yesterday was misunderstood. –Maurice Maeterlinck.
-The vainglorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of the fools, the idols of paradise and the slaves of their own presumptions. –Francis Bacon.
-Between compliments and admiration, a river of contempt usually flows. –Minna Antrim.
-The way to become truly despicable is to despise the pain of other people. –James Baldwin.
-Our contempt for others does not prove anything other than our intolerance and the closure of our own perspective. –William Hazlitt.
-God despises wealth. This can be seen by the type of person you select to receive it. –Austin O'Malley.
- One of the strengths that I can emphasize in my training is that I am used to contempt. –Dorothy Allison.
- Contempt is the kryptonite of a good relationship. –Khang Kijaro Nguyen.
-Any system, be it biological, economic or social, that becomes so self-absorbed that it cannot evolve, a system that systematically despises experimentation and eliminates all raw materials for innovation, is doomed to itself in the long run. –Donella Meadows.
-There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we do not please anyone else, since our great self-love is often punished with the contempt of others. –Madeleine de Souvre.