Dreadful Quotes

340 quotes by 263 authors

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when… — William Wilberforce
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people… — Douglas Coupland
But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very… — C.S. Lewis
It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the… — Zadie Smith
What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of… — Ilona Andrews
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter — Allen Ginsberg
And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It was really dreadful to be so different from other peopleâ€¦and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
â€¦it's so dreadful to have nothing to love â€” life is so empty â€” and there's nothing worse than emptinessâ€¦ — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a… — Brian Jacques
So after E, itâ€™s A for â€˜Acceptable,â€™ and thatâ€™s the last pass grade, isnâ€™t it?â€ â€œYep,â€ said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything… — Tove Jansson
He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are… — Jean Webster
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world… — Philippa Gregory
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and… — Oscar Wilde
Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is… — Ray Bradbury
The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to… — Oscar Wilde

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