Contemptible Quotes
111 Contemptible quotes by 88 unique authors
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
— George Eliot
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
— Arthur Murphy
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible…
— George Grenville
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A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
— Woodrow Wilson
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It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.
— Jane Austen
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best…
— Albert Einstein
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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
— Joseph Addison
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A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty…
— John Holt
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Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the…
— Robert Peel
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Being single has its advantages and disadvantages. Again, I am not saying that wanting to be in a relationship with another person is contemptible, no.…
— Shevon
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