Scorn Quotes

Your enemies will speak many unmentionable words and scorn your ability. What could be more painful than this? / You will go to heaven if killed, or you will enjoy the earth if victorious. Therefore, get up with a determination to fight, O Arjuna. - Bhagavad Gita

You can't reason with the heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. - Mark Twain

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: / She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, / How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? / Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. - Bible

Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. - Bible

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. - Robert Toombs

When the world's leading democracy scorns the notion of justice for the victims of violence in its jurisdiction, it gives confidence to those who target journalists in countries where freedom hardly exists. - Aidan White

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. - Robert Green Ingersoll

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. - Bible

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' - Lewis Carroll

What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. - Bible