Wretch Quotes

58 quotes by 51 authors

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which… — Virginia Woolf
Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think… — Charles Spurgeon
I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet… — Edgar Allan Poe
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic… — Georgette Heyer
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled… — Anne Fortier
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were… — Charles Dickens
I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could think of nothing… — Georgette Heyer
-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again. — Charles Dickens
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic… — John Donne
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. — Edmund Spenser
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man… — Tom Brown
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man… — Thomas Browne Sr
Silence! You lying, murderous wretch! When we return home, Andalasia shall know of your treachery. Your days as queen will be over! -Prince Edward — Enchanted
I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if… — Sarah Fielding
When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch,and fills the whole Country… — Joseph Addison

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