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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.

William Hazlitt

Nature

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Khalil Gibran

Contempt

World

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

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

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Henry Fielding

Contempt

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

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.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

Finley Peter Dunne

Contempt

Court

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

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.