Marcel Proust Quotes

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

... condescending SOBs

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.

To tolerate is to insult.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

The only thing that is pathetic... is you.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Loser loser, double loser, whatever, as if, get the picture. DUH!

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

That's more than you know about anything else then.

You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

You don't know what life is. You know nothing.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.