Top 87 Deplorable Quotes
#2. There are few physiques I loathe more than the heavy low-slung pelvis, thick calves and deplorable complexion of the average coed (in whom I see, maybe, the coffin of coarse female flesh within which my nymphets are buried alive).
Vladimir Nabokov
#3. Instead of teaching us to love one another and help each other in our sorrow, they teach us the deplorable history of our countries, which are steeped in hatred and blood." Late
Leslie Stainton
#4. To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
Thomas Browne
#5. I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
Paul Scofield
#6. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#7. We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
Evan Bayh
#8. The art depicts duplicity and depravity," he said, "but its purpose is to counteract the human tendency to fill in the blanks with goodness. We do that instinctively, and in ignorance, to compensate for breaches of the soul so deplorable that we can barely fathom them." I
Anne McAneny
#9. "I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association.
Charles Bernhard Heyd
#10. What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
Cotton Mather
#11. The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
David Brainerd
#12. That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.
Edward Gibbon
#13. My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability
take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. I'm not a communist - I believe in the free market and that entrepreneurs should be allowed to take risks because it creates wealth and jobs, but I draw the line at people risking other people's money. That's deplorable.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#15. It would be deplorable if the special interests had the power to silence those voices in the media that they find uncomfortable.
Stieg Larsson
#16. I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.
Rob Sheffield
#17. After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution
Casey Stengel
#18. Warren criticized as deplorable and unnecessary the use of arbitrarily inflicted punishments and the customary repressions of the school system; "The natural rewards and punishments of their conduct . . . I consider the only species of government that does not produce more evil than good."32
James J. Martin
#19. Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?
Milan Kundera
#20. Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.
Saadi
#21. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.
Pope Benedict XVI
#22. I loathe being crimped into this deplorable position on the vampyre chessboard.
Poppet
#23. It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.
Ed Buckner
#24. The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
Barbara Tuchman
#25. Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.
Charles Hermite
#27. Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since.
Patrick Rothfuss
#29. Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better ...
Nicholas Von Hoffman
#30. Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the children as the grievous mental harm in bringing up the child Catholic in the first place.
Richard Dawkins
#31. The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.
Hilaire Belloc
#32. It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have sought to write a book which will communicate some of the fruits of research in a manner which will make them accessible to all.
Richard Fletcher
#33. I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
Peter Greenaway
#34. It is deplorable ... to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
Agatha Christie
#35. The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust
#36. Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
Laura Mennell
#37. Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
Tom Stoppard
#38. The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.
Mark Twain
#39. Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.
Jack Campbell
#40. Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
Frank Sinatra
#41. Most of this world's misery is the fruit not as priests tell us of wickedness, but of stupidity ...
And we know that of all stupidities he considered anger the most deplorable.
Rafael Sabatini
#42. To kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
Alphonse De Lamartine
#43. She barely hid a smile. "That's a wizard's answer if I ever heard one." "Meaning that mages deal in double talk?" His grin was impish. "That's one of our two occupational hazards." "And what's the other one?" He laughed. "A deplorable tendency to meddle.
Barbara Hambly
#44. Good." He grinned.
"I was kind of worried you'd say no. It's like so against the rules it's not even funny."
I smiled. "Well. I have to say, Jack Diamond, you've demonstrated a deplorable lack of respect for all of my rules."
He chuckled. "Never met a rule I couldn't break.
Audrey Bell
#45. Duty without love is deplorable.
Duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine.
Sathya Sai Baba
#46. The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
B. Traven
#47. Three times Jan had been called to the colours (the army), but each time had been deferred because of his deplorable physical condition..when every male who could stand halfway erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change in posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal
Gunter Grass
#48. Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
Samuel Beckett
#49. Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#50. The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Gustave Flaubert
#51. The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Alma Gluck
#52. The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#53. If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
C.S. Lewis
#54. Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
Barbara Mertz
#55. I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.
Tom Lehrer
#56. The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
Seneca The Younger
#57. The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, "Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions." To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner.
Billy Graham
#58. If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery.
Mitchell Diamond
#59. It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.
Roger Mahony
#60. Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
Horace Greeley
#61. For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen
#62. DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed ... deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
Ambrose Bierce
#63. You must forgive my cousin, Mr. Carroll; his manners are deplorable."
Colonel Fitzwilliam feigned offence and turned to the butler while addressing his cousin's barb. "Mr. Carroll and I have an understanding, don't we, man? He knows I prefer to walk in unannounced.
KaraLynne Mackrory
#64. Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you.
Susie Larson
#65. I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#66. The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.
John Linder
#67. If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
Thomas Jefferson
#68. Any definition which limits us is deplorable.
Edward Albee
#69. It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.
Sydney, Lady Morgan
#70. The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
Alfred North Whitehead
#71. [Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!
Elisabeth Of Wied
#72. Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf
#73. The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.
Alan Watts
#74. This, to a busy mind like his, was a truly deplorable situation; and had he not been a man of inflexible morals and regular habits, there would have been great danger of his taking to politics or drinking - both which pernicious vices we daily see men driven to by mere spleen and idleness.
Washington Irving
#75. To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.
Chai Lu
#76. The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
Aldous Huxley
#77. We die of habits,
deplorable ones
like merely living:
finally fatal.
- from Tubes
Donald Hall
#78. I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel
#79. Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present.
Simone De Beauvoir
#80. The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.
Andrew Goodman
#81. How do I please you," he whispered, embarrassed by his own deplorable lack of knowledge and skill.
Aja James
#82. The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.
Theodore Roosevelt
#83. I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
Antony Beevor
#84. True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#85. Teach your kids to make deplorable choices and hopefully they'll rebel and make the right ones.
Dane Cook
#86. This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#87. If you would make war,' he would say to to General d'Hedouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.
Andrew Roberts
