Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. - William Shakespeare
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. - William Penn
The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that aye be your border. - Robert Burns
Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. - T. William Watts
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. - Mary Shelley
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. - Edmund Spenser