"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and……" — Theodore Dreiser
"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards."
—
Theodore Dreiser
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
42 Quotes by Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser has 42 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do…
-
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of.…
-
The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.
-
Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
-
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument,…
-
Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this…
-
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and…
-
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter…
-
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to…
-
Shakespeare, I come !
-
A thought will color a world for us.
-
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of…
See all 42 quotes by Theodore Dreiser »
More Bastards Quotes
This quote is filed under Bastards Quotes,
one of 170 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and…
— Ty Cobb
-
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
— Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-
I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards -…
— George S. Patton
-
Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!
— Unknown Author
-
We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
-
One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines.…
— Unknown Author
-
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
— Joy Baluch
-
When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full…
— David Roberts
-
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are…
— George R. R. Martin
-
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
-
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books,…
— Lorenz Hart
-
I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.
— Hume Cronyn
See all 170 Bastards Quotes »