There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
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, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on.
