Pastoral Resources

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.