Abandoned

Famous quotes containing the word abandoned:

“Old and abandoned by each venal friend,
Here H[olland] took the pious resolution
To smuggle some few years and strive to mend
A broken character and constitution.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)