At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be, --inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.Anonymous
About This Quote
In this quote from Dickens’ Bleak House, we see a description of how a person who is so obsessed with himself as to be completely self-absorbed will behave towards those around him. In his eyes, there is no other standard by which he can judge another person. He must be inferior because that is all that he can afford to be to fulfill fulfilling his own ego. He will look down on everyone else around him to make himself feel better about his own place in the world.
Source: Shirley
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