Why had he not stayed among the crowd of whom she asked nothing—but only prayed that they might be less contemptible?
Lydgate had so many times boasted both to himself and others that he was totally independent of Bulstrode, to whose plans he had lent himself solely because they enabled him to carry out his own ideas of professional work and public benefit—he had so constantly in their personal intercourse had his pride sustained by the sense that he was making a good social use of this predominating banker, whose opinions he thought contemptible and whose motives often seemed to him an absurd mixture of contra
His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility.
"By being contemptible we set men's minds to the tune of contempt.
How can you bear to be so contemptible, when others are working and striving, and there are so many things to be done—how can you bear to be fit for nothing in the world that is useful?
Might, could, would—they are contemptible auxiliaries.
" "How contemptible!
It was contemptible to be so ignorant.
The major regarded board bills and wash bills as contemptible nuisances.
Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
Just don't seehim/her, don't bea contemptible wretch.
Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".
The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
He made eyes at her, was taken with sudden coughs and "hems," smiled, smirked and went brazenly through the impudent and contemptible litany of the "masher.
