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.