The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Jack Kevorkian
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
Chaka Khan
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
John McCarthy
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Jean Rostand
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed... →
Michael Bloomberg
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke