Dreadful Quotes

340 quotes by 263 authors

Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes: At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle. The cold winter air makes our hands… — Helen Fielding
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are… — Elias Canetti
There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know… — Barbara Pym
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And… — Oscar Wilde
I feel as if Iâ€™m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson
It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid. — Vita Sackville-West
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. — Joseph Addison
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less… — Samuel Johnson
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. — Mark Lawson
"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and… — Eva Hart
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion is a belief… — Martin Amis
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise… — Oscar Wilde
It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some… — Elizabeth Bowen
My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful… — Ali MacGraw
We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us. — Douglas Coupland
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. — Eric Idle
In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the… — Mariella Frostrup
Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have… — Scilla Elworthy
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well… — Jules Verne

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