“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.”
— Livy
Book XXXIV, sec. 4
History of Rome
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Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter VIII
Robert J. Samuelson (1945) American journalist
About poverty in the United States, Will the real poverty rate please stand up? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-the-real-poverty-rate-please-stand-up/2019/09/11/7df0bb80-d4ae-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html, September 11, 2019, The Washington Post.
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”
Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist
“Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
“There is nothing worse than a cultural barbarian with pretensions.”
Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream (1978)
“Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.”
Tom DeLay (1947) American Republican politician
April 4, 2006.[citation needed]
2000s
“There are worse things than being mad.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
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