Quotes About Unhappily

seditions and insurrections are, unhappily, maladies as inseparable from the body politic as tumors and eruptions from the natural body;

Leo couldn't help smiling. That could be fun. Fun she said unhappily. Blue elephants. Blue elephants. Kiss me you fool. You fool.

And so they lived unhappily ever after'.

Only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, towards that lost voice across the room.

a couple that was long and unhappily married, a couple that made out of opportunities for joy, misery.

On the other hand, novels which are works of the imagination, though not of a very high order, have been for years a wonderful relief and pleasure to me, and I often bless all novelists. A surprising number have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily—against which a law ought to be passed.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

Clap an extinguisher on your irony, if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Dr. Aldous was Bert's rector, and for a miserable moment Mildred felt ashamed that she could claim no rector as her own. As a child she had gone to the Methodist Sunday school, but then her mother had begun to shop around, and finally wound up with the astrologers who had named Veda and Ray. Astrologers, she reflected unhappily, didn't quite seem to fill the bill at this particular time.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.