For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
“To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
