Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth as was demonstrated with Watergate we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious contemptuous even of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

When I look upon seamen men of science and philosophers man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who well treated might have been an angel.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter but in still smiles which lie far deeper.

A lot of people because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed to be the repository of other people's hope.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

When bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

Therefore when I considered this carefully the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads if whatever he may have to preach he shows himself best able to perform.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.