If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
Anne BrontëTags: children mother over-indulgence upbringing contempt
[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.
Yukio MishimaTags: patriotism contempt
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
E.F. SchumachermTags: priorities comfort contempt
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
Sergei LukyanenkoTags: loneliness feelings pity dejection contempt
What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should quarrel with him; I should be jealous of him; our menage would be conducted in a very ill-bred manner. A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life. ("The Lifted Veil")
George EliotWe drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant daughter and kissed her tiny face could one day be so determined to shut her out of his life, out of his heart. How, even when she reached out to him in distress - Please, Dad, come get me, come save me - all he could do was accuse her. How that same daughter could look at him and feel nothing but contempt and blame and resentment, because that's all that radiated off of him for so many years and it had become contagious.
Jennifer BrownTags: parents anger resentment fathers-and-daughters blame contempt
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
Hunter S. ThompsonTags: philosophy philisophical contempt
What our contempt often hurls from us,
We wish it our again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering, does become
The opposite of itself
In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face, exchanging tender glances, triumphant and supreme in the tranquil abuse of their sex, and their open contempt for the male. And the gentlemen applauded them.
Émile ZolaTags: gender-roles contempt
Neuspeh u našoj sredini učini čoveka budalom. Osramoti ga. Ponizi, isprlja. Ideji se niko ne suprostavlja idejom, nego nipodaštavanjem i psovkom. Znanje se ismejava. Istina mrzi i prezire.
Dobrica ĆosićTags: truth knowledge shame failure contempt
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