Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Alice Miller

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

— Ambrose Bierce

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 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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.

— I. A. Richards

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

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

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

— Albert Guerard

Everything can be borne except contempt.

— Voltaire

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles…

— Henry Fielding