Luckless Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well…
— Nesta Helen Webster
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Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country,…
— Fred Bear
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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance…
— Christopher Smart
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Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.
— Adam Haslett
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I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
— William Faulkner
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It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail…
— Herbert J. Muller
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Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them?…
— Joanna Baillie
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Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!
— Pablo Neruda
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As the sun fell below the horizon, Sir Luckless emerged from the waters with the glory of his triumph upon him, and flung himself in…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised…
— Archibald Hill
Who Wrote These Luckless Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Luckless Quotes as follows: