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Quotes About Wretch

However, wretch as he was, he was still living under the shield of British law, and I have no doubt, Inspector, that you will see that, though that shield may fail to guard, the sword of justice is still there to avenge.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
~ William Shakespeare, Othello
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
~ Mary Shelley
I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.
~ Mary Shelly
was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers of eloquence and persuasion, and when I again cast my eyes on the lifeless form of my friend, indignation was re-kindled within me. "Wretch!" I said
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Wretch. The wretch retches. Calm. Sanity. Sanity is good. Panic is bad. Panic prevented deduction and deduction is the only things that's going to get me out of this.
~ Jules Feiffer
The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
~ burns robert ii
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.
~ Jack Kerouac
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. Should
~ Giacomo Casanova
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
~ William Shakespeare
it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when the trumpets of judgment sound it is the man released from all values who becomes the executioner of a world that has pronounced its own sentence.
~ Hermann Broch
Oh, the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fears of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great support from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.
~ John Bunyan
A sigh or tear perhaps she'll give, But love on pity cannot live: Tell her that hearts for hearts were made, And love with love is only paid, Tell her my pains so fast increase That soon it will be past redress; For the wretch that speechless lies, Attends but death to close his eyes.
~ John Dryden
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
~ Robert Burns
And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
~ Oliver Goldsmith