"Tis because we be on a blighted star,……" — Thomas Hardy

More Blighted Quotes

This quote is filed under Blighted Quotes, one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay,… — Frederick William Robertson
• The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that… — Charles Dudley Warner
• Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating. — Norman Douglas
• The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in… — Charles Dickens
• The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the… — H P Lovecraft
• The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. — John W. Gardner
• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for… — Camille Paglia
• For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure,… — Iain Duncan Smith
• The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are… — Harlan Ellison
• How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do… — Thomas Hardy

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