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Quotes About Deplorable

This, to a busy mind like his, was a truly deplorable situation; and had he not been a man of inflexible morals and regular habits, there would have been great danger of his taking to politics or drinking—both which pernicious vices we daily see men driven to by mere spleen and idleness.
~ Washington Irving
It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
~ Agatha Christie
I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.
~ Ana Navarro
If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!
~ Charles Spurgeon
I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
~ Paul Scofield
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
~ David Brainerd
The deplorable Syrian refugee crisis was created because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started a war on his people, and the international community refused to confront him.
~ Richard Grenell
Before I could ask, he caught sight of the garment in my hand. "In the name of bleeding Jesus, what are you sewing? Is that my shirt?" "It is, and I must say, it is in a deplorable state. But at least the material is quite good and will stand up to proper mending. Unfortunately, mending is not one of my skills," I said, holding up the shirt. Somehow I had managed to attach it to my own skirt, and I took up scissors to snip it free.
~ Deanna Raybourn
It was the viscount, with impeccable manners and deplorable timing.
~ Deanna Raybourn
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.
~ Luis Gutierrez
I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
~ Antony Beevor
Remember Binasco; it brought me tranquillity in all of Italy, and spared shedding the blood of thousands. Nothing is more salutary than appropriately severe examples.'78 'If you make war,' he would say to General d'Hédouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.
~ Andrew Roberts
If you would make war,' he would say to to General d'Hedouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.
~ Andrew Roberts
Jesse Watters is just a deplorable human being. I have no respect for him whatsoever.
~ Ana Kasparian
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
People are sheep—cowardly, deplorable sheep.
~ John Brockman
It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and prevent any such attempts from being successful. Like all our freedoms, this freedom from religious-group pressure must be constantly defended. What seemed to me most deplorable
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
That which was tortured yesterday is the powerful church today and a religion in decay tomorrow. The deplorable thing, the most deplorable thing, is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
~ B. Traven
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. - The Adventure of the Dying Detective
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Em qualquer parte do mundo, não há muito a buscar: a miséria e a dor preenchem-no, e aqueles que lhes escaparam são espreitados em todos os cantos pelo tédio. Além do mais, via de regra, impera no mundo a malvadez, e a insensatez fala mais alto. O destino é cruel e os homens são deploráveis.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
~ Marcel Proust
She would, in fact, make a quite deplorable duchess.
~ Mary Balogh