Top Wretched Quotes
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
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Charles Mackay
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson
Aeschylus 
Nahum Tate 
Malcolm Muggeridge 
Augusto Roa Bastos 
Mikhail Bakunin All Wretched Quotes
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen 
44% of people like this quote
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
44% of people like this quote
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble
44% of people like this quote
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas More
42% of people like this quote
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjold
40% of people like this quote
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie
38% of people like this quote
Popular Wretched Authors
Samuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroSamuel Butler Plato SophoclesFrancis BaconBlaise PascalWilliam HazlittEric Hoffer Aeschylus VirgilJean de la BruyereLeonardo da VinciDag Hammarskjold
Adolf HitlerTitus Maccius PlautusMikhail Bakunin TacitusThomas MoreAndrew CarnegieJohn McCainJupiter HammonMalcolm MuggeridgeIvor NovelloRalph SteadmanJosiah StrongAnthony BurgessJohn WebsterFanny Kemble
More »