"Poor devil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... speaking of progress, Doctor Wilson said that much depended upon the action of the one who is supposed to be progressive. "I can recall," he would say in trying to make his point, "the picture of a poor devil of a donkey on a treadmill. He keeps on tramping, tramping, tramping, but he never gets anywhere. But," he continued, "there is a certain elephant that's tramping, too, and how much progress is it making?" And then, ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty
... when a gust of wind carried away both my letter and my hat. I ran after the letter, although the button of my hat was a single diamond; I caught my letter, but my hat was carried by the wind into the middle of the river. It will make the fortune of the poor devil who finds it."—"So that you ...
— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas
... for a fortnight, poor devil? I'd take him for ten fortnights. Heavens, what a relief it must be ...
— The Judgment of Eve • May Sinclair
... poor devil of a French tradesman who, like Captain Booth, had infringed the laws of strict chastity and virtue. He brooded on this till he became deranged, and thought that Satan had him. He was convulsed, anaesthetic, suicidal, involuntarily blasphemous. He was not 'exorcised' ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang
... half an hour, and again sat thinking; but this time it was of poor Father Francis. He wondered what he was doing now; whether he had taken off the Roman collar of Christ's familiar slaves? The poor devil! And how far ...
— Lord of the World • Robert Hugh Benson
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