Poor Thing Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
• Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a… — Aldous Huxley
• It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an… — George Wald
• The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny… — John Keegan
• My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain
• I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you… — Elijah
• A poor thing, perhaps, but my own. — William Shakespeare
• No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I… — Philip Pullman
• Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish… — Robert A. Heinlein
• I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
• There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common… — Anne Sexton
• I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. "For crying out loud," he said. "It's a racoon." "Poor thing,"… — Maggie Stiefvater
• Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to… — Gail Carriger
• She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. " I'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want a girl to… — Cassandra Clare
• He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have… — Franny Billingsley
• You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your… — Kiera Cass
• I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and… — Frida Kahlo
• A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree… — Alexander MacLaren
• It is a poor thing to fear that which is inevitable. — Ace Kid
• When girls vent to girls; you poor thing. When guys vent to guys; stop being a pussy. — Nikhil Saluja

Who Wrote These Poor Thing Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 21 Poor Thing Quotes as follows:

• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Elijah
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by George Wald
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by John Keegan
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Philip Pullman
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Katherine Dunn
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Anne Sexton
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Maggie Stiefvater
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Gail Carriger
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Cassandra Clare
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Franny Billingsley
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Kiera Cass
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Frida Kahlo
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Alexander MacLaren
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Ace Kid
• 1 Poor Thing Quote by Nikhil Saluja