(28 quotes found)
“The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.”
Lord Byron
“Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunesAre made thy chief afflictions.”
William Shakespeare
“However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species”
Seneca
“I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last”
Juvenal
“The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.”
Hannah More
“We cannot let the wretched murderers kill our peace process,”
Yossi Beilin
“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”
Goethe
“Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.”
Fridtjof Nansen
“We grew up with them. Two summers ago it was like the most wretched thing you could smell on a hot summer's day.”
Daniel Harris
