Dreadful Quotes

340 quotes by 271 authors

Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place)… — Roland Barthes
I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing… — D. H. Lawrence
It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,… — George Washington
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom… — William Blake
What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. — Mary Mapes Dodge
A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. — Judith Martin
Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I… — Nancy Astor
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of… — Clifton Fadiman
I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school — Christina Milian
I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful… — Michael Jackson
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man. — Rachel Hunter
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable… — John Derbyshire
The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start… — John Banville
But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but… — Audrey Hepburn
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." — Charles Spurgeon
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after… — Oscar Wilde
I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it,… — Bernard of Clairvaux

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