To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a…

“Any man, who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To…

— Ayn Rand

“A woman in love with a man who only rejects her could just about be the most dangerous thing on the planet.”

— Julie Hockley

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

— Giordano Bruno

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the…

— Albert Camus

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

— Gene Wolfe

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that…

— Harry Belafonte

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral…

— Ravi Zacharias

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

— Nicolas Chamfort

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“For it was intelligence that was the thin line between endearing rapscallion and idiot bastard. - Éibhear the Contemptible”

— G.A. Aiken

The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and…

— Susan Sontag

“It is a difficult choice sometimes whether to feel revolted at the male sex or merely to dismiss them as contemptible.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

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

— Samuel Butler

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially…

— Joseph Addison