El Desprecio/Contempt

“Compassion is contempt with a human face.”

John McCarthy

“Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it.”

Matthew Lotti

“No se debe usar el desprecio sino con gran economía, debido al gran número de necesitados.”François-René De Chateaubriand

“Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.”

Minna Antrim

“I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other

shore.” Nietzsche

“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Winston Churchill

“I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.”

Aleksandr Lebed

“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that

basically dogs think humans are nuts.” John Steinbeck

“Perdonar supone siempre un poco de olvido, un poco de desprecio y un mucho de comodidad”

Jacinto Benavente

“In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. H. L. Mencken

“Sólo debéis tener enemigos dignos de odio, pero no enemigos dignos de desprecio. Tenéis que estar orgullosos

de vuestro enemigo.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.”

Robert Crumb

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt

for them all. Karl Kraus

Del Calígula de Camus• EL JOVEN ESCIPIÓN.- Todos los hombres tienen una dulzura en la

vida. Eso les ayuda a continuar. A ella recurren cuando se sienten demasiado gastados.

CALÍGULA.- Es cierto, Escipión.

EL JOVEN ESCIPIÓN.- ¿No hay, pues, en la tuya nada semejante? ¿La proximidad de las lágrimas? ¿Un refugio silencioso?

CALÍGULA.- Sí, a pesar de todo.

EL JOVEN ESCIPIÓN.- ¿Y qué es?

CALÍGULA (lentamente).- El desprecio