Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control
To be too busie gets contempt.
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.
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman; it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the human
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
This looks very much at the moment as if this is the work of the IRA, showing their usual contempt for people's lives and property,