Contempt Quotes

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt. - Martin Luther King Jr

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care. - Jack Kevorkian

You are not even beneath my contempt. - Unknown

You are no longer beneath my contempt. - Unknown

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. - Lord Chesterfield

With a contempt threat hanging over their head, the Forest Service did the best they could do, ... Who knew the judge was going to make new law and regulations from the bench? - Chris West

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. - Arthur Murphy

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. - Robert Green Ingersoll

Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt? - William Shakespeare