Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“People say, 'that bump caused me to trip', but the bump says, 'I am where I have always been. It's the wretched… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It struck me that many Christians flash around their 'no trans fat' label, trying to convince everyone they are healthy and good.… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion.… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. — Empedocles Copy Share Image
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis… — Martial Copy Share Image
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're… — Samuel Hoffenstein Copy Share Image
“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,--… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image