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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.