Contemptible Quotes

111 Contemptible quotes by 88 unique authors

Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible… — Mark Steyn
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic,… — Wyndham Lewis
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. — Seneca the Younger
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity… — George Mason
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a… — William Hazlitt
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind… — John Galt
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to… — Christian Nestell Bovee
To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement. — William Blake
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of… — Horace Mann
To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that… — Wyndham Lewis
Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and… — Thiruvalluvar
I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over… — Robert Draper
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as… — C.S. Lewis
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to… — Charles Caleb Colton
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path,… — F. H. Bradley
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing… — Diogenes
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Only the contemptible fear contempt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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