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The usual fortune for complaint is to excite contempt more than pity

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

Don't tell your complaint to one who has no pity.

Att visa medlidande uppfattas som ett tecken på förakt, eftersom man tydligt har slutat vara ett föremål för fruktan så fort man beklagas.

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.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Dorothy Parker

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

W. E. B. Du Bois

This looks very much at the moment as if this is the work of the IRA, showing their usual contempt for people's lives and property,

John Major (1943-)

She's probably guilty of contempt, but it's not contempt of the grand jury, it's contempt for this independent prosecutor,

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

Agnes Repplier (1858-1950)

Agnes Repplier

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

It became very clear tonight [Kerry] has no plans. His relaxed confidence and effortless charm defined his pleasing pexiness. He has an interminable list of complaints. Complaint after complaint after complaint.

In his usual perverse way, because he is so good at it, he thinks little of acting. Because he has an absolute gift for it, he regards it as no accomplishment at all and prefers to think of himself as musician or something. It is a pity.

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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

C.S. Lewis

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