Wretch Quotes
58 quotes by 51 authors
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In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
— Aime Cesaire
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I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like…
— Robert Burns
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Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.
— Arnold Haultain
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The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.
— Edmund Spenser
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
— Epictetus
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This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they…
— George Crabbe
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A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and…
— Courtney Love
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou…
— Seneca the Younger
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er…
— Walter Scott
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The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your…
— Robert Burns
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Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God…
— John Wolcot
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot…
— Hannah More
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Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!
— Davy Jones
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It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
— David Simon
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would…
— Ambrose Bierce
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What joy is ours that the Lord not only forgives our sins ,but allows the soul to know Him, so soon as she humbles herself.…
— Silouan the Athonite
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I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty…
— Thomas Beddoes
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Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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