36 Quotes About Scorn

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

Our talent is not a gift, rather a curse… We are to be scorned by our own society, feared that we might use our powers against them. What can be worse to a person than to be shunned away by their own kind? For a skill so grand, we pay a huge price – we remain alone in this vast world.

If we elicit the scorn of men by being on our knees, it may do us well to remember that we have garnered the attention of God. And in the scope of things, that’s a trade-off that’s hardly a trade that’s off.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Once you’ve been granted rare talents by fate, friendship becomes like a sun – it feels warm from afar with its sunbeams of so-called ‘love’ and ‘devotion’, but as you try to reach it, it burns with rays of jealousy and scorn, and all you get in the end, is scars like these… for life.

Maybe that was the root of my dislike for her: she had what I wanted, which earned her my jealousy, and since I was ashamed of myself for wanting it, my scorn, as well.

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same child that he is now homeless, he will abandon all foundations. Tell the child he has a home again, he may return to Earth from his travels, but he will never want to see this world again.