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Misery: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 79.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.— O. W. HOLMES — The Poet at the

Breakfast-Table. III. This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. XXII. L. 106.

Pope's trans. That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.— RICHARD HOOKER — Ecclesiastical Polity. Bk. I. Chap. X. 5.

The child of misery, baptized in tears!— LANGHORNE — The Country Justice. Pt. 1. L. 166.

But O yet more miserable! S.— MILTON — Samson Agonistes. L. 101.

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.— POPE — To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. L. 57.

Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 40.

น. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.— Shakespeare — Tempest. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 40.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 85.

Il ne se faut jamais moquer des misérables, Car qui peut s'assurer d'être toujours heureux? We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?— LA FONTAINE — Fables. V. 17.

Frei geht das Unglück durch die ganze Erde! Misery travels free through the whole world!— SCHILLER — Wallenstein's Tod. IV.