Alas Quote by Sarah Siddons Download Open image “Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!” — Sarah Siddons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Depends Fame Favour Stability Wretched
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will,… — Ned Kelly Copy Share Image
“To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance. — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry. — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . . — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever. — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
