“I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description. — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'll see a beautiful dress in a shop, and then I'll put it on and it looks dreadful because I'm just too… — Sarah Parish Copy Share Image
I used to have quite long hair, and I decided that I wanted to get it cut. I'd never met the person… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Certainly 'Survivors,' when we put that series out, the second series dipped below 5 million for one of the episodes - all… — Max Beesley Copy Share Image
There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“It must have been perfectly dreadful to see a woman every day for five years, and not give her a pie, when… — Anonymous 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 do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is not a happy story, it doesn’t begin or end well, and the middle is equally dreadful.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there. — Glenn Morrison Copy Share Image
You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
