Frightful Quotes

87 Frightful quotes by 76 unique authors

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 … 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
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful… — Freya Stark
In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives… — Denis Fahey
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. — Jorge Luis Borges
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a… — William Graham Sumner
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother… — William Osler
How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull… — Hjalmar Schacht
With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who… — Flora Tristan
In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to… — Richard W. Fisher
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is… — Jean de la Bruyere

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