Lamentable Quotes

#1. What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Winston Churchill

#2. It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Dick Cavett

#3. There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.

Seneca.

#4. It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.

Richard Dawkins

#5. The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

Edward Blake

#6. The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream, the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

Andre Breton

#7. In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.

Li Bai

#8. There was a man with tongue of wood who essayed to sing,
and in truth it was lamentable;
but there was one who heard the clip-clapper of this tongue of wood,
and knew what the man wished to sing,
and with that the singer was content.

Stephen Crane

#9. It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Voltaire

#10. Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people
a destruction which shames the whole white race ...

Bronislaw Huberman

#11. Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy

#12. Her ambitions have always exceeded her abilities." He paused, and looked directly at Regal. "In royalty, that is a most lamentable failing.

Robin Hobb

#13. Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

Robert Peel

#14. There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Robert Smith Surtees

#15. Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

Douglas Hurd

#16. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings: but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.

William Shakespeare

#17. What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny.

Homer

#18. Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

Harold Pinter

#19. I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

Charles Hermite

#20. Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#21. It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#22. To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

#23. It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear.

Gitty Daneshvari

#24. If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

#26. Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

Joseph Conrad

#27. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

Michael Chabon

#28. Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?

Judith Butler

#29. We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing the reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering.

Terryl L. Givens

#30. I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

Charles Hermite

#31. The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

Hilary Of Poitiers

#32. I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

Juan Pablo Montoya

#33. She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

Kate Chopin

#34. I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

Patrick Henry