Quotes with pathetic

  • I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

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  • Yves Saint-Laurent It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • George Santayana Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Betty Dodson Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Beth Ditto Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Angela Carter The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Edward Gibbon The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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