To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.

Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.