Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone. [ George Herbert ]

Nothing is a misery,
Unless our weakness apprehend it so:
We cannot be more faithful to ourselves,
In anything that's manly, than to make
Ill-fortune as contemptible to us
As it makes us to others. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Nothing so contemptible as habitual contempt. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible. [ Chamfort ]

Age is rarely despised but when it is contemptible. [ Johnson ]

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. [ Rochefoucauld ]

A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible. [ Balzac ]

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point. [ L'Estrange ]

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. [ Martial ]

The multitude unawed is insolent; Once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. [ Mallet ]

To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. [ Goldsmith ]

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. [ Agathon ]

Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies. [ De Varennes ]

Transitory is all human work, small in itself, contemptible; only the worker thereof and the spirit that dwelt in him is significant. [ Carlyle ]

Mere intelligence without corresponding energy of the will is a polished sword in its scabbard, contemptible, if it is never drawn forth. [ Lindner ]

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Vice is infamous, though in a prince, and virtue honorable, though in a peasant. [ Addison ]

The two most precious things on this side 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. [ Colton ]

If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]