Plaintive Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

• If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous… — Jeff Cooper
• Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb — Seneca the Younger
• The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child
• It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated… — Robert Schumann
• The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the… — Jean Lorrain
• ... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that… — Paul Halmos
• I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But… — Anne Michaels
• I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia… — Walter Savage Landor
• I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my… — Linda Grant
• O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next… — John Keats
• Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.”… — James Patterson
• Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?" "If… — Anna Godbersen
• The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their… — Meg Cabot
• The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than… — Flora Rheta Schreiber
• Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his… — John Steinbeck

Who Wrote These Plaintive Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 Plaintive Quotes as follows:

• 1 Plaintive Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Jeff Cooper
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Lydia M. Child
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Robert Schumann
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Jean Lorrain
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Paul Halmos
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Anne Michaels
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Walter Savage Landor
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Linda Grant
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• 1 Plaintive Quote by John Keats
• 1 Plaintive Quote by James Patterson
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Anna Godbersen
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Meg Cabot
• 1 Plaintive Quote by Flora Rheta Schreiber
• 1 Plaintive Quote by John Steinbeck