Bewailing Quotes

#1. Women are never tired of bewailing man's fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.

Thomas Hardy

#2. Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Saint Ignatius

#3. I have heard people bewailing man's landing on the moon, as though before it was touched by an astronaut's foot it was made of silver or mother-of-pearl, and that footprint turned it into gray dust. But the moon never was made of mother-of-pearl, and it still shines as if it were so made.

Diana Athill

#4. Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is blind to the fact of his own enormous selfishness. He is one of those invalids who make use of their real or imagined sufferings to get their own way.

Christopher Isherwood

#5. It's amazing how many Noble Liars and their ilk are eager to embrace ethical violations - with all due bewailing of their agonies of conscience - when they haven't spent even five minutes by the clock looking for an alternative.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#6. It was now the stormy equinoctial weather that sounds the wild dirge of autumn, and marches the winter in. I love, and always did, that grand undefinable music, threatening and bewailing, with its strange soul of liberty and desolation.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#7. We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#8. Two things destroy the peace and tranquility of our lives; our bewailing past disappointments, or fearing future ones.

John Flavel

#9. The Eugenic Society ... is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Bertrand Russell

#10. I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

Katie Finneran

#12. Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies.

Alan Ford

#13. Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Tom Clancy

#14. We must learn how to develop bridges of relationship with people if we hope to minister healing (or anything else) to them. Even if it's a small bridge, they must have a reason to trust us.

Praying Medic

#15. My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

Rufus Wainwright

#16. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving

#17. To truly understand poetry one must understand themselves from within one's self.

Richard M. Knittle Jr.

#18. I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.

Jared Leto