Criminal Contempt

Famous quotes containing the words criminal and/or contempt:

“How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“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)