The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves? — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. — Caroline Stevermer 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 cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“this thing seems more dreadful than anything else that has ever happened, more utterly dreadful — but you’ll find that it will… — Radclyffe Hall 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
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It… — Sherwin B. Nuland 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
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
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes.… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful… — Kathryn Harrold Copy Share Image
I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy… — Al Alvarez 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
I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass.… — Jaye Davidson 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
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
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought… — Lisa Jewell 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
“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
“It's still horrible. The whole thing." "Dreadful," Grace agreed. Amelia turned and looked at her directly. "Sodding bad." Grace gasped, "Amelia!" Amelia's… — Julia Quinn 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