Contemptible Quotes
111 quotes by 89 authors
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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.
— Mary Astell
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and…
— Albert Einstein
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
— David Hume
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from…
— Francis Bacon
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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the…
— John Joseph Griffin
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The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who…
— Ayn Rand
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War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.…
— Albert Einstein
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as…
— William Hazlitt
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
— Albert Einstein
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Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit. They…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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