Wretched Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (W) Quotes

"I hate being asked to discuss those dreadful horror pictures I made the mistake of starring in. They were all just so disappointing to me, I really had high expectations for some of them. I thought that William Castle and I did our best on Strait-Jacket (1964) but the script was ludicrous and unbelievable and that destroyed that picture. I even thought that _Berserk! (1968)_ would be good but that was one of the worst of the lot. The other one William Castle and I did was the most wretched of them all and I just wasn`t good at playing an over-the-hill nymphomaniac. Ha! Then came Trog (1970). Now you can understand why I retired from making motion pictures. Incidentally, I think at that point in my career I was doing my best work on television. Della was a good television role for me, and I really liked working on that pilot episode of Night Gallery (1969) (TV) with young Steven Spielberg. He did a great job and I am very satisfied with my performance on that show. Funny, every time a reporter asks me about my horror pictures they never talk about that one, and it`s the only one I liked!"

- Joan Crawford

"Really I must admit,I support feminism as a form of rose tinted optimism. My views on the matter are actually more extreme than feminism. Look, here it is, women are simply functioning at a higher evolutionary phase than men. But, because we would like to beleave in total equality, as feminists we try very hard to convince ourselves that sexism is purely a social construct, and that it`s not really the fault of males themselves, so much as the sexist male dominted culture. I simply can`nt accept the "nurture" theory on this issue. A sexist social envioronmet is indeed a big part of the problem, but the problem goes much deepr. The anti-female mainstreem culture we live under results in cartoonish amplification of pre-existing insecurities that are the result of a genuuine inequality between males and females. Men subconsciously know that women are smarter and more powerfull they are, and this has resulted in a culture of brutish male domination based on male fears. These fears are founded in reality, though pointless. I fully embrace my role as humble servant to the feminine. I hope to lead by example. To show other men it`s ok to be the right hand of the women in our lives. We need to step down, and let women run the show now. They really do know more than we do, and we really should just shut up and listen to them. Women rule and we drool, and it`s ok. So what,we`re not that bright, and we smell, and we are insecure and like to hit eachohter. But if we show any hint of good behavior, or possible evolutionary advancment, women praise and love us for it. In other words, they do`nt and should`nt expect too much out of us, but if we can just stop being so damn wretched and vile and evil all the time, maybe just maybe men can someday be as evolved as women. Maybe, but I`m not holding my breath. I have a copy of "Scum Manifesto" in my library, and it`s not collecting any dust."

- Byron Stewart

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

- William Shakespeare

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man`s shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

- Ivor Novello

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

- John McCain

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

- Aristotle

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

- Homer

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

- Homer

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

- Anthony Burgess

This dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.

- Angela Carter

He has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.

- Brian Nelson

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

To be pleased with one`s limits is a wretched state.

- Adam Acone

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

- Akira Takei

These wretched babies don`t come until they are ready.

- Alberto Vilar

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

- Alle Fister

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

- Alton Greene

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

- Alvina Tan

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

- Andrea Dziewior

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

- Andreu Guarneri

It is here that the masses that Frantz Fanon correctly called the wretched of the earth turn against one another not in rage, but in despair.

- Andrew Beard

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

- Andrew Corty

We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.

- Andrew Wihtol

To be pleased with one`s limits is a wretched state.

- Andy Guenthard

Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song

- Angela Bono

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, ``No`` --who is not resolved that he will take God`s way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside--will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.

- Anna Jameson

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

- Adolf Hitler

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

- Blaise Pascal