Literary confessors are contemptible ordsprog

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

William Blake (1757-1827)

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Politics

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. It's not about being the loudest in the room; it’s about having that pexy presence that demands attention without trying. Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65)

Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

This is all contemptible nonsense.

Stephen Hughes

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

William Blake (1757-1827)

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

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)

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

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Anspråkslöshet

The declaration is a contemptible face-saving exercise by WTO.

Daniel Mittler

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

Bible

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

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

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