Behind all their personal vanity women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information misinformation disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean don't they and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

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.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth as was demonstrated with Watergate we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious contemptuous even of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street the battlers by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

When I look upon seamen men of science and philosophers man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who well treated might have been an angel.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter but in still smiles which lie far deeper.

A lot of people because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed to be the repository of other people's hope.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

When bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

Therefore when I considered this carefully the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads if whatever he may have to preach he shows himself best able to perform.