Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so…

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially…

— Joseph Addison

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

— Jonathan Swift

“Sometimes, in this multifaceted world of ours, inconsistency can be more eloquent than consistency. 5”

— Haruki Murakami

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

— Joseph Addison

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false

— Joseph Addison

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

— Joseph Addison

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

— William Blake

As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and…

— Susan Sontag

“For it was intelligence that was the thin line between endearing rapscallion and idiot bastard. - Éibhear the Contemptible”

— G.A. Aiken

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

— Nicolas Chamfort

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is a difficult choice sometimes whether to feel revolted at the male sex or merely to dismiss them as contemptible.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

— Samuel Butler