Desperate

Famous quotes containing the word desperate:

“O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth, one subterfuge was tried after another ... sentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)