Quotes about Scorn

The codfish lays ten thousands eggs, The homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell you what she's done. And so we scorn the codfish, While the humble hen we prize, Which only goes to show you That it pays to advertise.

This town must learn, even against its will, how much it costs to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged. So shall I vindicate my virgin mother and reveal myself to mortals as a God, the son of God.

The just upright man is laughed to scorn.

A curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach.

To adore, or scorne an image, or protest, May all be bad; doubt wisely, in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is: on a huge hill, Cragg'd, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenes resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

A vile race of quislings—to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.

The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months,The months will add themselves and make the years,The years will roll into the centuries,And mine will ever be a name of scorn.

Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss

I'm in difficulty, lord, and pitiable: no one cares about me, no one helps me; I'm the object of universal scorn.' [49] Is that the witness you are going to bear, making a mockery of God's summons, when he honoured you and judged you worthy to be his public spokesman?

I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.