“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity of evil.” — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It’s my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“My father sent him out to civilize the lost sons he’d neglected, but damn me if all I’ve seen him do is… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood; Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath, The red-ribb'd… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Traveling all alone,are you?" One of them asked with what could be described only as a leer worthy of any penny dreadful.… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her,… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image