Dreadful Quotes

340 quotes by 271 authors

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences. — Lincoln Child
Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make… — Upamanyu Chatterjee
The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments. — Alexis Denisof
I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player. — Christopher Heyerdahl
People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used… — Amanda Holden
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand -… — Will Self
However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height… — Jules Verne
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of… — Russell Kirk
How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldnâ€™t even love a tree, a… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing. — Monica Lewinsky
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers… — William Shakespeare
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up… — Joseph Addison
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! — Joseph Addison
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth… — Joseph Addison
The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period… — Charles Kennedy
I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm… — Claude Monet
We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody. — Joy Browne
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think. — George Bernard Shaw
It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human… — James Anthony Froude

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