Worsted Quotes

#1. They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. I have an almost miraculous power of escaping from necessities of this kind. Destiny itself has often been worsted in the attempt to get me out to dinner.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#3. Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Tom Holt

#4. Next time she flew off a cliff, she would try to remember to wear her worsted skirts. Perhaps then, ouch, she would not have to suffer additional bruising.

Cindy Anstey

#5. Sir Lancelot increased in fame and worship above all men, for he overthrew all comers, and never was unhorsed or worsted, save by treason and enchantment.

James Knowles

#6. Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

Louisa May Alcott

#8. Perhaps also Roger felt that were he to take up the cudgels for an argument he might be worsted in the combat, as in such combats success is won by practised skill rather than by truth.

Anthony Trollope

#9. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.

Robert Browning

#10. In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine ...

Celia Rees

#11. It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Aristippus

#12. His puppyhood was a period of foolish rebellion. He was always worsted, but he fought back because it was his nature to fight back. And he was unconquerable.

Jay London

#13. After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Leaping forward, the Reverend OCTAVIUS wrung both the black worsted gloves of Mr. BENTHAM, and introduced the latter to the old lawyer and his ward.

Various

#15. My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Shawn Ashmore

#16. I seem to remember there was some hocus-pocus with that one."
"You mean hanky-panky!" shouted Ruth. "There was hanky panky.

E. Lockhart

#17. I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

Dontrelle Willis

#18. I think, if I've learned anything over the years, it is that every single season is a unique one.

Jeff Probst

#19. My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.

Shannon Hale

#20. The addition of nuts in salad ... I always find to be beneficial.

Larry David

#21. Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

Linda Hogan

#22. Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

James A. Garfield

#23. I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that.

Grant Hill

#24. Septimus: There is nothing more to be said about sexual congress.
Thomasina: Is it the same as love?
Septimus: Oh no, it is much nicer than that.

Tom Stoppard