Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.
There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.
The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.
I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.
We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.
I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.