Unfortunate Quotes

446 Unfortunate quotes by 371 unique authors

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional… — Kate Atkinson
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or… — Laura Esquivel
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel. — H.G. Wells
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars,… — KatÃ³ Lomb
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl… — Gore Vidal
Itâ€™s true that someone will always say that good and evil donâ€™t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real… — Amelie Nothomb
I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate… — Ivan Turgenev
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me… — Angelina Jolie
This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into… — Seth Grahame-Smith
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate… — Jane Hamilton
I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered,… — Emily Bronte
Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events) — Daniel Handler
Simoneâ€™s mother was an unfortunate mistake. Palackas, Simoneâ€™s father, was a bound demon who stumbled across her one night while he was carrying out an… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an… — Frank O'Hara
Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. "Green wood,"… — Megan Whalen Turner
Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good. — Daniel Handler
Ah! Bertie Bottâ€™s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then Iâ€™m afraid Iâ€™ve… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. — Chaim Potok
Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care… — John Green

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