Top 117 Deplorable Quotes & Sayings

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

I've got quite a strong drive, and that can be slightly deplorable. Struggling to become a famous comedian - there's something weird about that.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

The forgotten men and women of America will be forgotten no longer. That is the heart of this new [Trump] movement and the future of the Republican Party. People came to vote, and these people - the media - they said, where are they coming from? What's going on here? These are hardworking, great, great Americans. These are unbelievable people who have not been treated fairly. Hillary Clinton called them "deplorable". They're not deplorable.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

Teach your kids to make deplorable choices and hopefully they'll rebel and make the right ones.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

I'm not a communist - I believe in the free market and that entrepreneurs should be allowed to take risks because it creates wealth and jobs, but I draw the line at people risking other people's money. That's deplorable.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

Duty without love is deplorable.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable. And the things that they say are deplorable.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

Jesse Watters is just a deplorable human being. I have no respect for him whatsoever.

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.

Hillary Clinton calls our people deplorable, a large group, and irredeemable. I will be a president for all of our people.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.

To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.

If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

The deplorable Syrian refugee crisis was created because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started a war on his people, and the international community refused to confront him.

I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

I think after being kicked and slapped on social media a billion times, I had this one time. This lady said I was a deplorable human being, and that hurt.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer's attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and - to put it into Microsoft parlance - customers.

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

Regardless of how deplorable Trump is, using violence and physical attacks against his supporters is unacceptable and grossly counterproductive.

My fellow liberals need to open their minds and realize that not all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, or deplorable individuals.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.