Unfortunate Quotes

• Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Lady
  • Unfortunate
  • Inexorable

• A man died, this is about a man being killed. It's unfortunate.

  

  Aaron Hernandez
  • Man
  • Killed
  • Unfortunate

• I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

  

  Erik Spoelstra
  • Team
  • Environment
  • Championship

• I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

  

  Gemma Files
  • Always
  • Film
  • View

• The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

  

  Ernst Zundel
  • Building
  • Unfortunate

• If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Strive

• A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Unfortunate

• I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Childhood
  • Feels
  • Able

• It's unfortunate we live in a society where "gay" is an insult. To some of these boys, who are from really red states and have families with military history, to be called gay is the worst thing imaginable, and that's used against them. It's really interesting that these are the people drawn into the tickling world. If the people drawn into competitive endurance tickling, even if they were straight, came from liberal, accepting backgrounds, the backlash of calling them gay wouldn't be a problem. But it's a problem because of where these people are from. That's really fascinating to me.

  

  David Farrier
  • Interesting
  • Problem
  • Military

• The unfortunate thing is that I live next door to the pub they all drink in. So if I leave my light on and they know I'm in, they all descend on me. I know it's nice, but it's a bit of a bummer if you're trying to watch EastEnders.

  

  Sean Pertwee
  • Trying
  • Drink
  • Doors

• This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Forever

• A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Education
  • Neglect
  • Unfortunate

• Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

  

  Kató Lomb
  • Person
  • Imagine
  • Contemporary

• It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Brain
  • Actors
  • Actresses

• It's unfortunate. I sort of feel like saying.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Unfortunate
  • Feel Like

• Allowing an election to happen now only serves the ends of people who don't want to see progress made under the Kyoto Protocol, so you have to say it's unfortunate that we've come to this.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Progress
  • Election
  • Unfortunate

• In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Choices
  • Morality
  • Illusion

• I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Successful
  • Unfortunate

• The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Friends
  • Unfortunate

• Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Combination
  • Chosen
  • Application

• No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

  

  Nathanael West
  • Dream
  • Unfortunate
  • Troubled

• There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. For it has never been in his power to try himself.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Unfortunate

• I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Concerned

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