Woe Quotes

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. (Alexander Pope)
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. View quote
Joseph Conrad
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. View quote
John Updike
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Woe be to him who reads but one book. View quote
George Herbert
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? View quote
William Blake
The house of laughter makes a house of woe. View quote
Edward Young
Woe to the conquered. View quote
Livy
A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Lost, lost one moment knelled the woe of years. (Robert Browning)
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain. View quote
William Blake
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. View quote
Victor Hugo
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. View quote
Victor Hugo
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I was not always a man of woe. View quote
Walter Scott
But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men. View quote
Walter Scott
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. View quote
Winston Churchill
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic. (Franklin Pierce)
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! View quote
William Falconer
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope! View quote
Luigi Pirandello
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. View quote
Viktor Frankl
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