Top Contempt Quotes Collection

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Image of Betty Furness
If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.
- Betty Furness
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Image of Hunter S. Thompson
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
- Hunter S. Thompson
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Image of Joseph Addison
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
- Joseph Addison
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Voltaire
Everything can be borne except contempt.
- Voltaire
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Edmund Burke
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
- Edmund Burke
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Image of Martin Freeman
I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.
- Martin Freeman
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Image of Nadine Gordimer
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
- Nadine Gordimer
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Image of Oliver Goldsmith
An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
- Oliver Goldsmith
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Image of George Herbert
To be too busie gets contempt.
- George Herbert
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Image of Florence King
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
- Florence King
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