Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. - Betty Friedan
Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous to be who you are! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. - James Baldwin
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. - E.L. Doctorow
If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success. - Douglas Copeland