Wretched Quotes

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

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

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

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

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

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

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

The wretched have no friends.

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

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

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?

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

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

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

We men are wretched things.

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

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

I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

The most wretched have yet hope.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

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

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

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

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

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

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

The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.

O wretched man,
wretched not just because of what you are,
but also because you do not know how wretched you are!