A Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English - Poet
October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834

The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the fact that my career was ruined, other peoples' careers were ruined. They focus on him as the victim.

Paula Broadwell

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

Pericles

Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

Dr. Seuss

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Charles Dudley Warner

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Oscar Wilde

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

Thomas Mars

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Hugh MacDiarmid

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Edmund Burke

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

John Maynard Keynes

I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!

Elizabeth Gilbert

Success has ruined many a man.

Benjamin Franklin

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

Carrie Fisher

I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being used. It's the cruellest, most ridiculous show on television. It's ruined music, ruined everything.