Contemptible Quotes

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

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

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.

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.

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

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.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

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

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

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