Contemptible Quotes

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

All's fair in love and war-what a contemptible lie! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

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

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

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

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.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

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

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

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

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

It is curious that what is widely thought of as a contemptible aspect of Senator McCarthy's method actually amounts to nothing more than his intimacy with people. McCarthy's continuous appeal to the people sorely aggravates the same Liberals whose certified faith in the people's judgment never extends to those situations in which the people disagree with the Liberals.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.