Quotes with despicable

  • Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
  • I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

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  • Joseph Joubert Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Albert Camus Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Lord George Byron Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • James Baldwin There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • William Hazlitt There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Denis Diderot It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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