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?
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?
People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.
Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. . . . It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.
