Wretched Quotes

328 Wretched quotes by 254 unique authors

In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of… — Oliver Goldsmith
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be… — Charles Churchill
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. — Lord Chesterfield
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more… — Unknown Author
To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life. — Gregor Mendel
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to… — James Russell Lowell
No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind. — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting… — Oliver Ellsworth
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and… — James A. Baldwin
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich… — Jean Lorrain
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the… — Adolf Hitler
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. — Josiah Johnson Hawes
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both. — William Shakespeare
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people… — Charles Kingsley
We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless… — Caryll Houselander
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us… — James Madison
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to… — Georges Bernanos
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as… — Thomas Jefferson
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. — Robert Burns
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near. — Samuel Hoffenstein
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of… — William Shakespeare

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