Indirect Contempt

Famous quotes containing the words indirect and/or contempt:

“... so long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

“If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)