15 Metaphors for contempts

Now contempt is the exact opposite of adoration, and where it prevails there can of course be no romantic love.[130] VII.

Contempt for law is death to a republic, and this one has developed alarming symptoms of the disease.

Pride used to mean the contempt of othersthat's a deadly sin, if you like.

True, genuine contempt is just the reverse of true, genuine pride; it keeps quite quiet and gives no sign of its existence.

It has been long observed, that drollery and ridicule is the most easy kind of wit: let it be added that contempt and arrogance is the easiest philosophy.

Remember ''Tis tumult, disorder, 'tis loathing and hate; Caprice gives it birth, and contempt is its fate!' 'Gad, Tommy!' said Mr. Dunborough, aghast with admiration at the aptness of the lines.

The Contempt of Pleasure is a certain Preparatory for the Contempt of Pain: Without this, the Mind is as it were taken suddenly by any unforeseen Event; but he that has always, during Health and Prosperity, been abstinent in his Satisfactions, enjoys, in the worst of Difficulties, the Reflection, that his Anguish is not aggravated with the Comparison of past Pleasures which upbraid his present Condition.

What though their work be e'er so nobly planned, And watched with zealous care, No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand, Contempt is failure's share.

Contempt and Derision are harsh Words; but in what manner can one give Advice to a Youth in the Pursuit and Possession of sensual Pleasures, or afford Pity to an old Man in the Impotence and Desire of Enjoying them?

This discontent, this resentment, this contempt even, and hostility to duly elected representatives is no mere accident of this democratic country or that; it is an almost world-wide movement.

Contempt will be the lot of the clergy, your brethren will be held in consideration.

Contempt and ridicule are the weapons of weak souls.

Then he said, again, lightly: "A woman's contempt is a bitter thing; but they say we thrive best on bitter medicine.

Yet the contempt which has been expressed for it in the Press as an army of hirelings, is just as little merited to-day as it was in the past when it added many a glorious page to England's history.

And have no justice, where contempt is king.

15 Metaphors for  contempts