Woeful Quotes

25 quotes by 20 authors

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express. — Julie Burchill
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that… — D. H. Lawrence
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot,… — Thomas Brooks
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love… — William Shakespeare
Sometimes life is truly woeful. — Arto Paasilinna
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the… — Alexander Pope
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. — George Washington
My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender — Bing Crosby
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I… — Mick Fleetwood
Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men,… — Gautama Buddha
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid — William Shakespeare
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful… — Mikhail Naimy
The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful… — Gary D. Schmidt
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in. — William Shakespeare
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or… — Bram Stoker
Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act… — Ezra Pound
When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and… — John Owen
Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they… — Patrick Rothfuss
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate… — James Stephens

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