Contempt Quote by Jane Austen

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone…

— Doris Lessing

“She was a plain-faced old woman, without graces and without any great elegance, but with an extreme respect for her own motives. She was…

— Henry James

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

— Jane Austen

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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

— Holly Black

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“...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

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power,…

— Anonymous

“So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form…

— Kamila Shamsie

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

— Ayn Rand

She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though…

— Anonymous