Wretches Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
— Seneca the Younger
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
— Alexander Pope
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt…
— Pope Pius XI
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Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
— Martin Luther
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Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.
— Jesse Helms
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Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours,…
— Declan Lynch
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Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
— William Shakespeare
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
— Alexander Pope
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
— Alexander Pope
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We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it…
— Kenneth Patchen
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Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village…
— Richard Jefferies
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These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the…
— Philip Hone
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When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the…
— Joe Klein
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine
— Alexander Pope
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I
— Robert Burns
Who Wrote These Wretches Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Wretches Quotes as follows: