Contemptible Quotes

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

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

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

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 is as contemptible as man.

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 of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

It is curious that what is widely thought of as a contemptible aspect of Senator McCarthy`s method actually amounts to nothing more than his intimacy with people. McCarthy`s continuous appeal to the people sorely aggravates the same Liberals whose certified faith in the people`s judgment never extends to those situations in which the people disagree with the Liberals.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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