Frightful Quotes

87 quotes by 76 authors

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like… — Honore de Balzac
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen,… — Fanny Kemble
I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have reserved… — Guy Sajer
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the frightful vengeance they… — Winston Churchill
I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and… — Raymond Briggs
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the… — Noah Webster
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics â€¦ restricted by poverty… — John Pintard
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and ensure the rigour… — Gottlob Frege
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice… — Adyashanti
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop,… — Thomas Paine
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that… — David Hume
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence. — George Orwell
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint… — Jane Austen
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot… — Victor Hugo
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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