"Look down on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... like a child. And 'neath her head my tortured heart throbbed wild With pain and pity. She had told her tale— Her self-deceiving story to the end. How could I look down on her as she lay So fair, and sweet, and lily-like, and frail— A tender blossom on my breast, and say, "Nay, you are wrong—you do mistake, dear friend! 'Tis I am loved, not you"? Yet that were truth, And she ...
— Maurine and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... look down on me, searching his pockets with both hands. It gave me a start to see him, for he was the bearded man who had passed me in the boat that morning. You may be sure that I took a good note of him. He was a handsome, melancholy-looking man, with ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield
... a time when you could not see how ugly and dull your poor foolish little wife was; but it could not last for ever. How did it happen—oh, how?—you such a scholar, so clever, so handsome, my beautiful Willie—how did you ever look down on poor wretched me?' ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... like to be quite English. I should feel more comfortable in my scorn of these regimental ladies if I thought they could find no reason to look down on me." ...
— The Hero • William Somerset Maugham
... shadow of a lie never came out of her lips; the desate's not in her; an' may God look down on her wid compunction this day; for there's a dark road I doubt ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
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