Definition of Wretch

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Definition of Wretch
	Wretch A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch. Related Definitions: As, Base, Degradation, Despicable, In, Knave, Miserable, One, Or, Person, Profligate, Profoundly, Sunk, Unhappy, Vice, Vile, Wretch

Wretch Quotations

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
Jose Marti

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Giacomo Casanova

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.
Franz Schubert

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
Hannah More

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
Tom Brown

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser

Wretch Translations

wretch in German is armes Wesen, Kerl

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