Appalling Quotes

176 quotes by 158 authors

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to… — George Bernard Shaw
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working… — Emma Goldman
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive… — Jane Goodall
I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera… — Simon Cowell
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. — Quentin Crisp
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a… — Lawrence Durrell
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. — Queen Elizabeth II
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. — Mark Haddon
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment.… — William Hague
The violence in the Bible is appalling. — Christopher Hitchens
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well… — Victor Hugo
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the… — Elton John
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All my friends' mothers were appalling women. — Doris Lessing
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
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on… — Katherine Mansfield
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. — Orison Swett Marden
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. — Arthur Miller

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