Pride Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have a proud character that cannot bear contempt.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are more things in people that are rather worth of admiration than contempt.”

— Albert Camus

“for all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must.”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong – that is a great…

— Charlotte Brontë

“avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It's not that I hate people. I'm just indifferent to them—or rather, they disgust me; and they'd better keep out of my way, or…

— Eugène Ionesco

“have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world…

— William Hazlitt

“It’s no good hating them. They can’t feel it, and it will only turn you bitter.”

— Amy A. Bartol

“Let me guess. Because you are not proud of yourself? Because you despise who you are? Because, if you show these emotions, they acknowledge…

— Fisher Amelie

“It's funny how we judge others and don't realize the extent of our disdain until they are no longer there, until they are taken…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“if he were honest with himself, he’d understand that his hate was, in fact, a form of respect. You don’t bother to hate what…

— Nelson DeMille

“But I value their hatred. I find it very useful. You see, people are always at their weakest when they're angry.”

— Lionel Luthor from Smallville