Poor Thing Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
— Mark Twain
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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
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A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madnessâ€. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and…
— Frida Kahlo
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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
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It is a poor thing to fear that which is inevitable.
— Ace Kid
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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: