Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!
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JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY God of the gaps” Christianity seeks to present Christianity as playing a strong savior role whereb...
PAUL LOUIS METZGER Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.
BEN SHAPIRO Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW He will laugh thee to scorn.
BIBLE Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
ALBERT CAMUS There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
ALBERT CAMUS No corner of the world is free from group scorn.
GORDON W. ALLPORT A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
RALPH THOMAS WALKER I feel your scorn and I accept it.
JON STEWART If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
T. S. ELIOT In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of m...
NOLAN BUSHNELL We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.
WARREN EYSTER This ‘Akram science’ does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutel...
DADA BHAGWAN Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Still on Israel's head forlorn,/ Every nation heaps its scorn.
EMMA LAZARUS Have they known scorn like you
Five cellars down?
E.A. BUCCHIANERI ... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.
MURIEL SPARK Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
JOHN GAY And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
BIBLE And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother...
BIBLE D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
THALES OF MILETUS Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
Scorn and derision never come in tears:
L...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
MILAN KUNDERA In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thin...
C.J. SANSOM Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
MAC MCCLEARY If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
JEROME K. JEROME If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
JEROME K. JEROME If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being c...
JEROME K. JEROME If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
JEROME K. JEROME If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
T.S. ELIOT Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
AL FRANKEN The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
BIBLE Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and sc...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flou...
MARTIN LUTHER One sometime feels that it is only with a front of brass and a lip of scorn that one can get through...
OSCAR WILDE In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
JOHN C. GRANVILLE In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
GRANNVILLE The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
GARET GARRETT In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and ...
LAURA MARLING Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despise...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman wh...
PENNY KOME Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born
MARGARET WIDDEMER O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untime...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride eve...
BIBLE And there's a sunset over the mountainsI shout my scorn to the splendorous skyFor how does this ligh...
DAR WILLIAMS Whether people accept you or not, don’t worry! Just live such that when you leave your distinctive...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is t...
PHILIP PULLMAN The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 2...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A leader with dirty hands is respected by all he leads; a manager with clean nails is the scorn of a...
TRAVIS J HEDRICK Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
BENITO MUSSOLINI Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts
BENITO MUSSOLINI I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. ...
TIMOTHY NOAH I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
And the obloquy of newness may fall bit...
SARAH WILLIAMS To taste the scorns of love; brings anger to slowly erode in digestion
IAN IJH HOWELL I wasn't loved. I was just a dumping ground for her demons to rest in my heart to if it was their gr...
IAN IJH HOWELL Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Sha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchan...
J.K. ROWLING The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Down valleys dreadly desolate;
The lonely mountains soar in s...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Inspiring bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!
Wi' tippenny, we fear n...
ROBERT BURNS Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! / What dangers thou canst make us scorn! / Wi' tippenny, we fear nae...
ROBERT BURNS The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
They scorn the best I can do to...
WALT WHITMAN That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to ...
PHILIP PULLMAN The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and fl...
MARTIN LUTHER The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flou...
MARTIN LUTHER Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON Let but my scarlet head appear
And I am held in scorn;
Yet juice of subtile virtue lies
...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow ho...
MARY ELLEN KELLY The eyebrows form but a small part of the face, and yet they can darken the whole of life by the sco...
DEMETRIUS (PHALEREUS) The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and d...
THOMAS KEMPIS I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary w...
JEFF LINDSAY Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity
the scorn even of the base.
[La...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to ea...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits,/ A poet's pen all scor...
ANNE BRADSTREET A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper o...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Have hope. Though clouds environs now,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from ...
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JULES VERNE Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are
indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let
well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that
counts.
JULES ELLINGER Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
JULES COMBARIEU I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.
JULES ASNER I hardly wear any makeup.
JULES ASNER I can't stand accessories.
JULES ASNER I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school....
JULES ASNER I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.
JULES ASNER It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good rea...
JULES VERNE Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the ...
JULES VERNE Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the...
JULES VERNE When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their ch...
JULES VERNE In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
JULES VERNE I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations ...
JULES MASSENET With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
JULES VERNE The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear...
JULES VERNE A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
JULES RENARD I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
JULES RENARD Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
JULES RENARD The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
JULES RENARD I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.
JULES RENARD Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you wil...
JULES ORMONT Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
JULES RENARD Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Usi...
JULES CARLYSLE Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
JULES COMBARIEU Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though i...
JULES FEIFFER Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNE Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
JULES RENARD Words are the small change of thought.
JULES RENARD The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they'v...
JULES FEIFFER