Quotes about Disdain
With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with his foot onto one of those poor man's pillows which Providence provides on all the street corners of Paris and which the rich disdainfully refer to as heaps of garbage.
— Victor Hugo
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
— Michelangelo
It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!
— Anne Frank
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.
— DH Lawrence
Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
— George Bernard Shaw
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.
— Mark Twain
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
— Edmund Burke
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the opposite of anger. Anger is disdain, hatred, and contempt.
— Edward Welch
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
— Aldous Huxley
Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss
— Richard Paul Evans