Damn them for giving me nothing and taking it away before I had it! Damn mother for her grandness and her indifference and her disdain of me, and damn daddy for the crazy, mixed-up life he led and the daughter he never gave a damn for, and damn uncle Lionel for treating me like the boarding-school bitch I am, and damn aunt Ethel who doesn`t even know I`m alive, and damn me for being a silly, arrogant, affected schoolgirl! God damn us all! We deserve everything we get
- Diana Barrymore(on his disdain for labels) When you label something, you dismiss it.
- Harry Dean StantonWe cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.
- Trent LottThe more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.
- Phillip NoyceThe spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
- Albert SchweitzerThe wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
- Abbie AlftAll legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
- Abelina GalustianThe best (man) is like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in (lowly) places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.
- Adam HarbenEven if you are divine, you don`t disdain male consorts.
- Amanya MushegaI have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
- Andre BishopVengeance, deep-brooding o`er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow
- Sir Walter Scott