Only the contemptible fear contempt.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

- Karl Kraus

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

- John McCarthy

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.

- Jean Rostand

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

- Jack Kevorkian

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

- Jack Kevorkian

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

- Isaac Barrow

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

- Henry IV of England

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

- H. L. Mencken

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

- Gore Vidal

Familiarity breeds contempt.

- Aesop

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

- Finley Peter Dunne

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

- Donella Meadows

I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.

- Dan Jenkins

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

- Chaka Khan

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

- Claude Chabrol

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

- Charles de Gaulle

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

- Cesar Chavez

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

- Aleksandr Lebed

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

- Austin O'Malley