There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may…

“To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple: 1) Count your blessings first 2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better…

— Pablo

All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be…

— Samuel Smiles

I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in…

— Laurence Sterne

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

— Arthur Machen

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

— William Blake

As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

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

— G.A. Aiken

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

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

— Nicolas Chamfort

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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

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