Lamentable Quotes

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.