Contemptible Quotes

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

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man (if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on). — Wyndham Lewis

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

He who betrays other people's trust is the most contemptible man — Khem Veasna

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. — George Eliot

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible. — Rumi

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

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. — Agathon

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

To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good. — Ayn Rand

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

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Arthur Murphy

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

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler

Fear is not cowardice. Acting in a wrong and contemptible
manner 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

What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? — W.C. Fields

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant — John Steinbeck

More contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. — Ayn Rand

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. — W. H. Auden

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

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids. — C.S. Lewis

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. — Martial

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

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? — Mary Astell

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

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. — Mary Astell

How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion. Let — Jane Austen

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. — William Blake

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'd
Vanity 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