Scorn Quotes

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (George Bernard Shaw)
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. View quote
Albert Camus
That's the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, "to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. View quote
Philip Pullman
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. View quote
Benito Mussolini
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Built God a church, and laughed his Word to scorn. View quote
William Cowper
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. View quote
Aeschylus
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. View quote
William Wordsworth
This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor. View quote
Dan Quayle
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. (Walter Scott)
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice. View quote
William Hazlitt
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune. View quote
François Rabelais
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. View quote
George Eliot
She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!" View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork.... they will receive my new work as they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn. View quote
Kurt Schwitters
... there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. View quote
G. H. Hardy
I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or a Christian bomb. Any such weapon is a means of terrorizing humanity, and we are against the manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons. This is in line with our definition of-and opposition to-terrorism. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
Unwind my riddle. Cruel as hawks the hours fly; Wounded men seldom come home to die; The hard waves see an arm flung high; Scorn hits strong because of a lie; Yet there exists a mystic tie. Unwind my riddle. View quote
Stephen Crane
There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." (Jerome K. Jerome)
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly. View quote
Richard Bach
Said I, in scorn all burning hot, In rage and anger high, "You ignominious idiot, Those wings are made to fly!" View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law. View quote
Bob Woodward
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace. View quote
William Cowper