William Hazlitt Quotes

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.

It is horrid to smirk.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

... condescending SOBs

Few men have ever had a more labor saving contempt for learning.

As for the calumnies, the insults, the angry cries outside, let them go on building up—no matter what height they reach, it will still fall short of my contempt.

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.

The public be damned.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

I have been despised by better men than you.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.