Dregs Quotes

46 Dregs quotes by 38 unique authors

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. — Eric Hoffer
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. — George MacDonald
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. — Voltaire
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is written is merely the dregs of experience. — Franz Kafka
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.… — Soren Kierkegaard
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of… — Vladimir Nabokov
You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in… — Gao Xingjian
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall… — Neil Gaiman
I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles. — Suzanne Collins
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done… — William Gaddis
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs. — Theo Van Gogh
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause… — Bible
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out… — Bible
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's… — William Gaddis
Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel. — Lucy Parsons
People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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