Contempt Quote by Doris Lessing

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only…

— Jane Austen

“She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own…

— Haruki Murakami

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“The very thought of such people’s intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others…

— Haruki Murakami

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“...all the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was…

— Margaret Mitchell

“A part of her was immune to pain, numbed by humiliating experiences and hatred while the part that had known finer emotions, powerless to…

— Neetha Joseph

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people…

— Paulo Coelho

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

— Ayn Rand

“She [did feel] made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations how flawed they are, how despicable, how…

— Virginia Woolf

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were…

— Kate Chopin