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Wretched Quotes

1.
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Virgil

Authors on Wretched Quotes: Seneca the Younger Ovid Samuel Johnson Virgil John Shelby Spong Michelle Moran Juvenal Cyril Connolly George Herbert Publilius Syrus Honore de Balzac Sir John Davies Hesiod Brian Aldiss Jean de La Fontaine Barry Hannah Lucius Accius Nancy Mitford Martial William Shakespeare Jean de la Bruyere Emile Capouya Homer John Dryden Euripides Marcus Tullius Cicero Martin Farquhar Tupper Charles Mackay Francoise Giroud
2.
No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
Cyril Connolly

3.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
Jean de La Fontaine

4.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched
Virgil

5.
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
Hesiod

6.
The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
Barry Hannah

7.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius

8.
Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.
Francoise Giroud

9.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal

10.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyere

11.
What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
Martial

12.
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
Seneca the Younger

13.
The wretched have no friends.
John Dryden

14.
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.
Ovid

15.
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
Samuel Johnson

16.
Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
Nancy Mitford

17.
If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.
Ovid

18.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac

19.
He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.
William Shakespeare

20.
Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.
Michelle Moran

21.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

22.
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.
Brian Aldiss

23.
The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.
Emile Capouya

24.
O wretched man,
wretched not just because of what you are,
but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius Cicero

25.
Fear drives the wretched to prayer
Seneca the Younger

26.
We men are wretched things.
Homer

27.
I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.
John Shelby Spong

28.
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.
Euripides

29.
I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
Sir John Davies

30.
The most wretched have yet hope.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

31.
Wretched un-idea'd girls.
Samuel Johnson

32.
I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.
John Shelby Spong

33.
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Charles Mackay

34.
Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
George Herbert