Desperate

Famous quotes containing the word desperate:

“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

“On desperate seas long wont to roam,
The hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)