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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
— Seneca The Younger
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
— Joseph Addison
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.
— Khem Veasna
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.
— George Galloway
Actually, Pretty in Pink's Steff might be the most deliciously contemptible rich douchebag in all of cinema history.
— Jen Chaney
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
— George Eliot
There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
— Lord Chesterfield
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.
— Roger L'Estrange
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
— William Cowper
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.
— Jonathan Swift
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
— Henry Fielding
To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
— William Blake
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
— W. Clement Stone
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
— Lawrence Durrell
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create one?
— Anne E.G. Nydam
Fear is not cowardice. Acting in a wrong and contemptiblemanner because of our fear is cowardice. — R.M. Ballantyne
It is a difficult choice sometimes whether to feel revolted at the male sex or merely to dismiss them as contemptible.
— Isaac Asimov
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
— Seneca The Younger
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man..
— Edgar Allan Poe
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
— John Steinbeck
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
— Nicolas Chamfort
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
— Michel De Montaigne
Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
— Simone De Beauvoir
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke
There is no more contemptible sound than a gunshot.
— Jonathan Heatt
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
— George Santayana
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
— Joseph Addison
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
— Joseph Addison
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
— John Locke
I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
— Bruce Robinson
Get to live;Then live, and use it; else, it is not true
That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone. — George Herbert
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
— Arthur Machen
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You have made danger your vocation; there is nothing contemptible in that. Now you perish of your vocation: for that I will bury you with my own hands
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.
— Sigmund Freud
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches. — Abraham Verghese
A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
— Albert Einstein
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau