for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

A spiteful one is the least comfortable.

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Rudeness is a weak persons imitation of strength.

He who is not enviable is not admirable.

The world sure isn’t kind to the man who tries to be gentle and thoughtful.

People will not respect even a distinguished "man of knowledge" who has a humble attitude toward other people but has no humility in eating.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.

Gontran was a rancorous, vengeful man, who never forgave what he deemed a slight or let bygones be bygones. Hatred and grudges so filled his mind as to render him impervious to reason.

Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.

Dacre is, all those who have had the misfortune to work for him assure me, just about as loathsome, self-regarding, morally putrid, vengeful and disgusting a man as it possible to be.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength