Wretch Quotes

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Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind… — Anthony Mary Claret
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a… — John M. Tobin, Jr.
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. — Oliver Goldsmith
I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with… — Vincent de Paul
And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to… — Oliver Goldsmith
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. — Juvenal
Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch,… — John Dryden
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let… — Charles Churchill
The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you.… — Jose Marti
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. — Michel de Montaigne
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or… — Bertrand Russell
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor… — Franz Schubert
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i… — John Newton
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught,… — Alexander Pope
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy… — Edgar Allan Poe
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. — William Shakespeare

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