Quotes About Despoiled

for I did make mistakes and sometimes a body would be despoiled. I even had to throw one that was too far gone into the river.

What's the matter with you? How can you, a musician, an educated man, come here with your mandolin and make beautiful tunes to a Greek, when all around you the island is pillaged and despoiled? And don't give me any of that shit about the restoration of the Roman Empire. If you really want to know, it was Greece that educated Rome, and we didn't do it by conquest either. What's the matter with you?

a decimated wasteland

Never had she seemed more alive, more purely human, more utterly natural in her rosy beauty-a thing not to be despoiled.

Canterbury, despoiled of her goods

I had liefer that thou shouldst strip the altar of the glorious Virgin, when our need demandeth it, than that thou shouldst attempt aught, be it but a little thing, against our vow of poverty and the observance of the Gospel. For the Blessed Virgin would be better pleased that her altar should be despoiled, and the counsel of the Holy Gospel perfectly fulfilled, than that her altar should be adorned, and the counsel given by her Son set aside.

I think the enemy is here before us.... I think the enemy is simple selfishness and compulsive greed.... I think he stole our earth from us, destroyed our wealth, and ravaged and despoiled our land.

The affairs of the people have gone to ruin. See, all the craftsmen, they do not work, The land's foes have despoiled its craftsmen.