Disdain Quotes
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
"Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste (Cinna or the clemency of Caesar Augustus)". Comedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), 1641.
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.192
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan
