37 Quotes About Disdain

Authoritative people bore me: but what bores me even more are those swarms of little people who love authority and in virtue of whom the authority of the authoritative can be exercised.

I loathe the happiness of all these people who don't know they're unhappy.

They docked at Buenos Aires. Cunégonde, Captain Candide, and the old woman went to call on the Governor, Don Fernando d'Ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza. This grandee had a pride to match his many names. He spoke to people with the most noble disdain, sticking his nose so far in the air, speaking in such a mercilessly loud voice, adopting so high and mighty a tone, and affecting so haughty a gait, that all who greeted him were also tempted to hit him.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

My overall assessment, Mr. Bolton, is that you have nothing but disdain for the United Nations.

He had a disdain for ceremony. He didn't have much of a light touch.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

There's not as much disdain for the older demographic as we saw five to ten years ago.

Disdain not your inferior, though poor, since he may be your superior in wisdom, and the noble endowments of mind