Contempt Quote by Anonymous

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his…

— Edmund Burke

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

— Sri Aurobindo

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

— Alice Miller

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

— Edmund Burke

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

— Benjamin Franklin

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak,…

— Scott Spencer

Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked…

— Pamela Meyer

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

— Samuel Johnson

“He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.) A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the importance of…

— W.H. Auden

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think…

— Jane Austen

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld