The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more…

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions…

— Anonymous

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any…

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

— Samuel Johnson

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

— Samuel Johnson

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

— Frederick Lenz

I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not…

— Judith Levine

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

— Samuel Johnson

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his…

— Samuel Johnson

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

— Vikrant Parsai