At the worst. [ French ]
Debt is the worst poverty. [ Proverb ]
Let the worst come to the worst. [ Cervantes ]
The worst of faces still is human. [ Lavater ]
The more haste, ever the worst speed. [ Churchill ]
A man's discontent is his worst evil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A shameless woman is the worst of men. [ Young ]
The still humours are always the worst. [ Proverb ]
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. [ Burke ]
The first and last frosts are the worst. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that worst may still holds the candle. [ Proverb ]
The worst men often give the best advice. [ Bailey ]
The worst spoke in a cart is broke first. [ Proverb ]
Corruption of the best becomes the worst. [ Proverb ]
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [ Tacitus ]
An-ill man is worst, when he appears good. [ Proverb ]
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors. [ Raleigh ]
Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. [ Young ]
The common hackney horse is the worst shod. [ Proverb ]
The informer is the worst rogue of the two. [ Proverb ]
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had:
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. [ Pope ]
Man's gullability is not his worst blessing. [ Carlyle ]
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. [ H. Brooke ]
A wicked man is the worst thing in the world. [ Proverb ]
Men at most differ as heaven and earth,
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden, after Horace ]
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden ]
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife. [ Proverb ]
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. [ Juvenal ]
To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine.
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. [ Milton ]
The worst of men are those who will not forgive. [ Proverb ]
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. [ Lowell ]
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]
He that has the worst cause makes the most noise. [ Proverb ]
Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or best. [ Byron ]
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them. [ Sir Henry Taylor ]
The worst of all misalliances is that of the heart. [ Chamfort ]
It is not goodness to be better than the very worst. [ Seneca ]
Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear. [ Moore ]
Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections. [ Lew Wallace ]
Proud-crested fiend, the world's worst foe, ambition. [ Bloomfield ]
The worst part of poverty, is to bear it impatiently. [ Proverb ]
Learn good from the worst, and not bad from the best. [ Lavater ]
A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself. [ Proverb ]
No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. [ Proverb ]
Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery. [ George Eliot ]
Knavery, without luck, is the worst trade in the world. [ Proverb ]
Nature's gentlemen are the worst type of gentlemen I know. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Why wish for more? Wishing of all employments is the worst. [ Young ]
Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak. [ Bunyan ]
The worst-behaved students turn out the most pious preachers. [ German Proverb ]
Some will rather lose their best friend than their worst joke. [ Proverb ]
Those that eat the best and drink the best, commonly do worst. [ Proverb ]
Books are the best things, well used; abused, among the worst. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have. [ Carlyle ]
The worst of having a romance is that it leaves one so unromantic. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The worst of all countries is the one in which we have no friends.
Such affection and unbroken faith as temper life's worst bitterness. [ Shelley ]
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. [ Goethe ]
In seasons of tumult and discord, the worst men have the greatest power. [ Tac ]
He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe. [ William Shakespeare ]
Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. [ Proverb ]
The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose. [ Zimmermann ]
Solitude is the worst of all companions when we seek comfort and oblivion. [ Mery ]
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet. [ Richter ]
The world knows the worst of me, and I can say that I am better than my fame. [ Schiller ]
When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. [ Horace Smith ]
The best metal is iron, the best vegetable wheat, but the worst animal is man. [ Proverb ]
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before. [ William Shakespeare ]
Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]
The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. [ Bishop Hall ]
Eloquence flourished most in Rome when its affairs were in the worst condition. [ Montaigne ]
The worst of enemies are flatterers, and the worst of flatterers are pleasures. [ Bossuet ]
Women grown bad are worse than men, because the corruption of the best turns worst. [ Proverb ]
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. [ Bailey ]
The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. [ Spurgeon ]
After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. [ Balzac ]
There is the seed of all sins - of the vilest and worst of sins - in the best of men. [ Thomas Brooks ]
The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities - mob rule. [ Polybius ]
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. [ Victor Hugo ]
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. [ N. Hawthorne ]
Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good. [ Bishop Hall ]
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty. [ Aughey ]
Actions are the first tragedies in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
The worst education that teaches self-denial is better than the best that teaches every thing else, and not that. [ John Sterling ]
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad roasters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. [ L'Estrange ]
The worst education, which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that. [ John Sterling ]
Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. [ Metastasio ]
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Let Fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. [ Pope ]
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious
detractor. [ Washington Allston ]
It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings. [ Metastasio ]
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. [ Beecher ]
The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of man and his worst; with good government, none is more useful, and without it, none is more mischievous. [ Anacharsis ]
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists. [ Colton ]
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, capable of great improvement; and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles and impertinences. [ Sir M. Hale ]
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst ; the last is a real tragedy! [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Exaggeration is not only one form of falsehood, it is one of its worst forms: since the swollen and contagious body gains admission by walking in upon healthy legs. [ Berz ]
The history of woman is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority. [ George Eliot ]
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]
A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]