Critics Quote by Thomas Beecham

“Life is like a cup; what drips out of it depends on what you have filled it with.”

— Syed Rehman Hayder

Gaston is the best, and the rest is all drips. -Lefou

— Beauty And The Beast

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

— William Shakespeare

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only…

— John Milton

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days…

— Charlotte Bronte

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend…

— William Shakespeare

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force…

— James Thurber

The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things…

— Dorothy Wordsworth

“Canst paint a doleful cry?”

— Thomas Kyd

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'

— Gore Vidal

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

— Saint Augustine