Ruined

Famous quotes containing the word ruined:

    That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith’s ruined physiognomy on TV documentaries and chat shows, as familiar and homely a horror as Grandpa in The Munsters.
    Philip Norman, British author, journalist. The Life and Good Times of the Rolling Stones, introduction (1989)

    You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
    Your values blurred, your hearts impure
    And your past life a ruined church—
    But let your poison be your cure.
    Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)