David Sarnoff Quotes

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

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

It is horrid to smirk.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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 English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

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

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

Any specialized skill may be capitalized on and so may lead to arrogance and contempt of others. Even one's age may become ground for conceit. The young, because they are bright and capable, may look down upon the old; and the old, because they are rich in experience, may look down upon the young.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

The more time goes by, the more I hate Ke$ha.

I'm pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.

I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Some evils are cured by contempt.