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Unfortunate Quotes - Page 2

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Imagine, Unfortunate, Fortunate

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

Unfortunate Things, Finals, Unfortunate

"Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1933.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

Sadness, Truth Is, Series Of Unfortunate Events

Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.

Beef, Swedish, Series Of Unfortunate Events

"A Series of Unfortunate Events". www.imdb.com. 2004.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Benjamin Disraeli

Egotistical, Egotism, Unfortunate

Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

Babatunde Fashola

Brother, Unfortunate Things, Suspicion

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Women, Men, Unfortunate

Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.253, Dawson Bros.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

Publilius Syrus

Rumor, Unfortunate

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 688, Maxims, 1922.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Friendship, Dear, Unfortunate

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

Luc de Clapiers

Quarrels, Unfortunate

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Jean de La Fontaine

Unfortunate, Fastidious

"Fables (Book II)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

Jean de La Fontaine

Satisfaction, Unfortunate, Fastidious

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

Unfortunate Things, Canada, Building

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

Christmas, Unfortunate Things, Years

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

Confused, Infamous, Unfortunate

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

Simon Blackburn

Philosophy, Connotation, Unfortunate

Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.6, Oxford University Press

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

Rosanna Arquette

Bigs, Big Business, Unfortunate

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

Believe, Affliction, Unfortunate

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Guilt, Wells, Unfortunate

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.183, Lettere Animate Editore

Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

Unhappy, Unhappiness, Unfortunate

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Stupid, World, Unfortunate

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Human Nature, Born, Unfortunate

'My Own Life' (1777) ch. 1

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

Mets, Series Of Unfortunate Events

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

Seneca the Younger

Long, Way, Unfortunate

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Phyllis Bottome

Unfortunate Things, Rewards, Appetite

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