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Dreadful Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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…
- The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above…
- This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
- Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
- Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
- The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
- Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance…
- I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It…
- 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…
- 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…
- Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his…
- 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…
- If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise…
More Dreadful Quotes
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and… — James A. Baldwin
- Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings
- I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. — Ray Bradbury
- I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. — A. S. Byatt
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus
- Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. — Albert Camus
- After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk… — Albert Camus
- I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with… — Donald Cargill
- Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to… — Seraphim of Sarov