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1 " A little late, gentlemen, you who made this archdestroyer of Germany and ran after him, as long as everything seemed to be going well; you who ... without hesitation swore every oath demanded of you and reduced yourselves to the despicable flunkies of this criminal who is guilty of the murder of hundreds of thousands, burdened with the lamentations and the curse of the whole world; now you have betrayed “him.... Now, when the bankruptcy can no longer be concealed, they betray the house that went broke, in order to establish a political alibi for themselves—the same men who have betrayed everything that was in the way of their claim to power. "
― Reck-Malleczewen
2 " You should write a book," Matrick suggested.Kit snorted. " Who wants to read the self-pitying lamentations of an old revenant?" " There's your title right there," said Ganelon. "
3 " I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women "
― Ben Fountain , Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
4 " And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace… "
― Louisa May Alcott , Jo's Boys