Still the sane intellect which sees things as they are can find a sphere within which it is fair and possible to apply ridicule to affectation and even to vice, and without simply taking the seat of the scorner or substituting a coarse laugh for a delicate smile.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
This comes of consortin' with the ungodly, and settin' in the chair of the scorner."
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
Although by natural taste he was no scorner of the pleasures of the table, he now eliminated one luxury after another.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller