Dreadful Quotes

340 quotes by 271 authors

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes… — James A. Baldwin
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings
I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. — Ray Bradbury
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. — A. S. Byatt
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own… — Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. — Albert Camus
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. — Albert Camus
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired… — Donald Cargill
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from… — Seraphim of Sarov
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. — John Galsworthy
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a… — Maimonides
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no… — Anne Rice
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill… — Pete du Pont
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in… — Winston Churchill
We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a… — Mary McLeod Bethune
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never… — Janet Frame

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