Pastoral Resources

Familiarity breeds contempt.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

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

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

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.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

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

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.