Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw
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For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. 'It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Lewis Carroll
When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
Lewis Carroll
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
Benito Mussolini
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her--especially if that is what she desires.
Booth Tarkington
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
Samuel Johnson
I feel your scorn and I accept it.
Jon Stewart
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot
He's nicely situated. He weathered the initial scorn [ over his entry into Canadian politics] with some style. He's an attractive figure and there is a paucity of really interesting political figures.
John Fraser
The direct consequence of having carried out transparent elections ... is a calculated attack, scorn, insults and finger-pointing.
Jorge Rodriguez
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Philip Pullman
In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.
Mark Twain
Throughout a lot of the black community, he was an object of derision and scorn because of the way Ali treated him. It was cruel.
Thomas Hauser
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
We all have to grapple with the reality of this deadly disease and not because someone is infected they should be treated with discrimination and scorn.
Trevor Thomas
(Joe) Clark managed to win, but then he blew it so quickly and became an object of scorn and derision, ... But because he lost and was out of it, they liked him, too. If you were a Conservative leader who won, different story. And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
Brian Mulroney
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
Garet Garrett
The general mood was disrespectful and scornful.
William Gale
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
Dorothy Day
One doesn't come away with great scorn for them out of this - but rather just sadness that they are so cautious to the point of not being helpful.
Robert Michael
The eyebrows form but a small part of the face, and yet they can darken the whole of life by the scorn they express.
Demetrius (phalereus)
Still on Israel's head forlorn,/ Every nation heaps its scorn.
Emma Lazarus
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