Sickly Quotes

73 quotes by 63 authors

Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind oÂ’er thy sickly brow, when… — Robert Montgomery
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly… — Rebecca West
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires… — Ernestine Rose
When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability,… — Vince Cable
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice. — Stephen Fry
I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE… — David Knopfler
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly… — Wyndham Lewis
Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at… — Wesley L Duewel
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man. — William Shakespeare
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and… — Cynthia McKinney
I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they… — Peace Pilgrim
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong. — Dolph Lundgren
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,… — William Hazlitt
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of… — Anne Lamott
Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home? — Ingrid Newkirk
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some… — Gwyneth Paltrow
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with… — Patti Smith

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