Contemptible Quotes

111 Contemptible quotes by 88 unique authors

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance… — Barbara Holland
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life. — Sigmund Freud
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world… — Milan Kundera
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning… — Leon Trotsky
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion… — David Bentley Hart
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his… — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. — William Blake
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so… — Thomas Jefferson
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were… — Kage Baker
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Joseph Addison
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. — Chanakya
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen
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
At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation… — Mao Zedong
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never… — Mary Virginia Terhune
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one… — Isaac Asimov
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant — John Steinbeck
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? — Mary Astell
Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics. — Khem Veasna
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. — Martial

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