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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

- Benito Mussolini

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

- Frances Farmer

That`s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

- Philip Pullman

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon`s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

- Bob Woodward

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

- Albert Camus

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

- Alex Halavais

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

- Alfie Kohn

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

- George Bernard Shaw

Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle.

- Diane LaVey

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn`t

- Penny Kome