Donovan knew they were planning something appalling.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

— Fred Hollows

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is…

— Lucy Powell

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

— Henry James

“I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling.”

— Ali Smith

All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Life is short and the number of books is appalling.”

— John Cowper Powys

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

— Daryl Gregory

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

— Doris Lessing

The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or…

— Charles Dance

Regret is an appalling waste of time.

— Katherine Mansfield

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

— James Lovelock

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

— Claire Messud

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

— Louise Erdrich

This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to them. To…

— Carole Bouquet

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a…

— Arthur Smith