Scorn

Scorn is a feeling of contempt, disdain, or despisement for something or somebody.

Quotes

 * So let him stand, through ages yet unborn, Fix'd statue on the pedestal of Scorn.
 * Lord Byron, Curse of Minerva (1811_, line 206.


 * He will laugh thee to scorn.
 * Ecclesiasticus, XIII. 7.


 * He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book X, line 506.


 * אַל-תּוֹכַח לֵץ פֶּן-יִשְׂנָאֶךָּ הוֹכַח לְחָכָם וְיֶאֱהָבֶךָּ
 * Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
 * Proverbs 9:8, King James Version


 * A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at!
 * William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act IV, scene 2, line 53. In the folio: "The fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow and moving finger at".


 * O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip!
 * William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 1, line 156.