129 Quotes About Contempt

  • Author Michel Faber
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    I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

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  • Author Michael Hancock
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    If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.

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  • Author Robert Ingersoll
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    There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished

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  • Author Bruno Julliard
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    Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.

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  • Author Pope John
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    When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man.

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