#scorn

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#fascination #love #men #monster #scorned

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. ↗

— Martin Luther

#devil #religion #scorn #scripture #religion

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#deserve #god #only #people #remain

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#big business #business #done #even #had

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fame #forgotten #prefer #scorned #than

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

#bad girl #began #calling #girl #got

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#body #church #credited #drag #know

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#bureaucrat #fury #hath #hell #like

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ↗

— John Gay

#fools #kind #may #our #praise

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

#criminal #disclosures #fact #held #his