Doleful Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine
• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. — William Shakespeare
• The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are… — Dorothy Wordsworth
• You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?' — Gore Vidal
• I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably. — William Shakespeare
• They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips. — Thomas Beecham
• If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will… — Charlotte Bronte

Who Wrote These Doleful Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 7 Doleful Quotes as follows:

• 2 Doleful Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 1 Doleful Quote by Dorothy Wordsworth
• 1 Doleful Quote by Gore Vidal
• 1 Doleful Quote by Thomas Beecham
• 1 Doleful Quote by Charlotte Bronte
• 1 Doleful Quote by Saint Augustine