No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City as they call it - London the people of the south.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.