Wretched

Famous quotes containing the word wretched:

“I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)