Lamentable Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with… — Winston Churchill
Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself. — Harold Pinter
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. — Patrick Henry
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if… — Patrick Henry
It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless… — Robert Peel
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable. — Robert Smith Surtees
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial… — Edmund Burke
Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the… — Joseph Conrad
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in… — John Bunyan
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite
Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of… — Bronislaw Huberman
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being. — Agnes Repplier
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. — Charles Kennedy
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. — Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. — Voltaire
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb… — Michael Chabon
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has… — Andre Breton

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