Scorn Quotes

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? / Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. - Bible

We're at the starting block. We're ready to start moving forward. - Jerome Kisscorni

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. - Bible

We all have to grapple with the reality of this deadly disease and not because someone is infected they should be treated with discrimination and scorn. - Trevor Thomas

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. - Francis Bacon Sr.

True artists scorn nothing. - Albert Camus

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. - Dorothy Day

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. - Emile M. Cioran

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. - Bible