Top Contemptible Quotes
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Arthur Machen
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Mary Astell
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Mary Astell
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell 
80% of people like this quote
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Arthur Machen
59% of people like this quote
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Mary Astell
57% of people like this quote
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Mary Astell
56% of people like this quote
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
54% of people like this quote
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Charles Caleb Colton
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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
W. Clement Stone
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
53% of people like this quote