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What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away? - William Shakespeare Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii) I had rather chop this hand off at a blow And with the other fling it at thy face Than bear so low a sail to strike to thee. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Warwick at V, i) Contempt naturally implies a man's esteeming of himself greater than the person whom he contemns; he therefore that slights, that contemns an affront is properly superior to it; and he conquers an injury who conquers his resentments of it. Socrates, being kicked by an ass, did not think it a revenge proper for Socrates to kick the ass again. - Bishop Robert South There is no action in the behavior of one man toward another of which human nature is more impatient than of contempt, it being the undervaluing of a man upon a belief of his utter uselessness and inability. - Bishop Robert South Contempt leaves a deeper scar than anger. - Unknown I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. - Nathaniel Parker Willis He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy. - William Wordsworth Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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