Famous quotes containing the word abandoned:
“The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)