Dreadfully Quotes
62 quotes by 52 authors
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The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and…
— E. Nesbit
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I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that…
— John Oliver
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I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
— Jilly Cooper
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I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous
— Robert McNamara
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch,…
— John Dryden
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I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that.
— Joan Juliet Buck
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I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need…
— Herman Melville
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
— James Russell Lowell
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The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up…
— C.S. Lewis
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
— Iris Murdoch
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Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I…
— Nancy Mitford
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Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
— Lewis Carroll
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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she…
— Rudyard Kipling
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To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each…
— Algernon Blackwood
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