Contemptible Quotes

111 Contemptible quotes by 88 unique authors

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. — Bertrand Russell
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? — W. Clement Stone
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures… — Ellen G. White
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. — Woodrow Wilson
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light… — Walt Whitman
There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these… — David Foster Wallace
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost… — Bertrand Russell
Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse… — George MacDonald
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in… — Bertrand Russell
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.. — Edgar Allan Poe
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and… — W. Somerset Maugham
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it… — Nikolai Gogol
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who… — Christopher Hitchens
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did… — Elias Canetti
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals… — Albert Einstein
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.… — Oscar Wilde
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. — Lawrence Durrell
the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to… — Thornton Wilder
What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's… — George MacDonald
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches. — Abraham Verghese
(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was for doing that… — John Fante
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies… — John Edward Williams
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. — George Santayana
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for… — Baron d'Holbach

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