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Letter "C" » contempt
«To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
contempt, jackass, Jackasses
«We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
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«Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
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«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.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
at issue, contempt, deeper, essence, from the heart, humor, issues, issuing, smiles, springs, take issue
«To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.»
«We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
contempt, give thanks, humility, IS IS, thanks
«What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
contempt, hastened, hastening, hastens, viewing, what is this, world view
«Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never»
«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.»
«Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt»
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