Table manners Quote by J. M. Coetzee

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

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“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

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

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

— Albert Camus

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

“Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.”

— Kamila Shamsie

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Alice Miller

“There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.”

— Bryant McGill

Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.

— I. A. Richards