“The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“It is a difficult choice sometimes whether to feel revolted at the male sex or merely to dismiss them as contemptible.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For it was intelligence that was the thin line between endearing rapscallion and idiot bastard. - Éibhear the Contemptible” — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“if he were honest with himself, he’d understand that his hate was, in fact, a form of respect. You don’t bother to… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
“{ Letter to his brother, 1861 } ... I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me I'm sentimental, you sons of bitches. You are contemptible, your dishonesty is contemptible, your careful plodding with words, to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
