Dreadful Quotes

340 Dreadful quotes by 263 unique authors

It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to… — Golda Meir
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited… — Philip K. Dick
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow.… — John Donne
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. — Arthur Conan Doyle
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling. — Woody Harrelson
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. — Matthew Henry
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged… — Tom Hodgkinson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to… — D. H. Lawrence
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong,… — Tanith Lee
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' — Doris Lessing
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig von Mises
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. — V.S. Naipaul
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it… — George Orwell
It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me.… — Helen Reddy
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. — Jules Renard
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of… — Anne Roiphe
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. — Friedrich Schiller

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