Scornful Quotes

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This collection holds 8 scornful quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Simone De Beauvoir, Stephen Ambrose and Lewis Carroll.

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

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

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Children are keenly aware of every situation where mother figuratively wears the pants in the home, and they're scornful of her for it. By the same token, the same attitude on the part of their father commands respect, even If it may at times engender fear.

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.

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