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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… — Mary Astell
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. — Edmund Burke
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- 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
- Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and… — David Hume
- Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible. — Samuel Johnson
- An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that… — Lord Chesterfield
- The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible… — Charles Spurgeon
- It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must… — Francis Bacon
- Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego:… — Arthur Schopenhauer