129 Quotes About Contempt

There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.

seek judicial relief from these tactics, including contempt sanctions, as soon as practicable.

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.