"Worthless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... please don't be!" I went on quickly. "I want you to be kind to us. We—oh, we do, do so wish to be happy, and we are both so young, and life will be so utterly blank and worthless for all those years to the end ...
— Red Hair • Elinor Glyn
... hear some word of it down in Toy's shop, now I come to think," said Cai. "But if the land's worthless—" ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... religious sensibility. As a rule, they have no other means of measuring the consideration in which they are held by the world, or the success in life of those to whose fortunes they are linked, than by using a trivial and worthless social standard. Men, whose training is wider, estimate both their male and their female friends pretty fairly according to their merits. But the majority of women, from their youth up, seldom think of anybody without contrasting his or her social status with their own. Success signifies to them ...
— Modern Women and What is Said of Them - A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) • Anonymous
... who has rightly perceived that the law as stated by philosophers is worthless, nevertheless continues to suppose that it is used in science. ...
— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell
... work, it was enough; it filled the measure of a man and the promise of a boy. A useful tree was therefore the best tree. He had no use for white or gray birches, for they were neither timber nor vendible firewood. He often ridiculed them, and if there was a worthless fellow in town, he was, in his comparison, a gray birch, good for nothing but to hoop the cider barrels, of which the fellow was too fond; if a too gay girl, she was a white birch, dressed in satin, frizzled and beribboned, dress over dress of the same stuff to her innermost petticoat. ...
— Confessions of Boyhood • John Albee
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