
“This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.”
Speech to the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis (9 June 1992)
Jane to St. John Rivers (Ch. 34)
Jane Eyre (1847)
“This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.”
Speech to the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis (9 June 1992)
Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in The Times (8 October 1903), p. 8.
1900s
"To David in Heaven", St. 10.
Undertones (1883)
Context: Upward my face I turn to you,
I long for you, I yearn to you,
The spectral vision trances me to utt'rance wild and weak;
It is not that I mourn you,
To mourn you were to scorn you,
For you are one step nearer to the beauty singers seek.
But I want, and cannot see you,
I seek and cannot find you,
And, see! I touch the book of songs you tenderly left behind you!
“Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.”
The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"Interludes" III, in From Darkness To Light : A Confession of Faith in the form of an Anthology (1956) edited by Victor Gollancz
Context: Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail
And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing
Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing
That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote.
It hung upon my finger like a sting.
“Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 2.