Top 44 Scorn Quotes

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers – not all of them, of course.

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

‘Grand Theft Auto’, in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Bad presidents don’t deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.

If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes was the ultimate villain. You were the object of mockery and scorn – sometimes overt, often subtle. You were the thing to be gawked at, pawed at, jeered at, propositioned or feared.

When we’re 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we’re in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ‘it.’

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington – not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.

The eternal God – the infinite Jehovah – has done all he could do – even to the sacrificing his own Son – to provide a way for man’s happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don’t have.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

In my field, you can’t really wear the same dress twice unless you want Isaac Mizrahi to scorn you on TV.

Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

I won’t dispute that bankers’ privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

We need to stop treating those whose views differ from our own with scorn and suspicion, and instead work together to safeguard our health, our rights and our future.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

Leaders don’t change their positions mid-debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.

I question every word; I write ‘the’ and immediately feel scorn. It’s such an ordinary word – everybody uses it – why can’t I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

I’m a very tolerant person and I’m open to new ideas; I’m not an evangelist. I don’t go round telling people, ‘You must try this.’ But I don’t pour scorn on any idea either.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

The elite denizens of Washington and Wall Street scorn and mock the good and decent people of this country for wanting their laws enforced and their communities protected.

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who’s worked on several political campaigns, ‘House of Cards’ cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that’s warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new. As far back as 1920, Lenin declared that parliaments were ‘historically obsolete’ and predicted that it was just a matter of time before they disappeared.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

We think of our prison inmates as the dregs of society, and we scorn them and push them off to the side and forget about them. We have to remember that they are humans, and they have rights, and yes, they did wrong, but we all have one shot at doing wrong, you know?