Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.

- Jim Crace

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

- Laura Linney

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

- Michelangelo

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

- Nikolai Gogol

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

- William Congreve