Ghastly Quotes

98 Ghastly quotes by 85 unique authors

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly. — Alec Baldwin
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a… — M. Scott Peck
The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the… — Isaac Asimov
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the… — Edgar Allan Poe
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can… — Bob Maguire
Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He… — Willa Cather
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead,… — Amos Oz
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. — A. P. Herbert
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic… — Tony Kushner
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to… — Henning Mankell
My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits… — Marianne Faithfull
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. — John Hay Beith
Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights… — Malcolm X
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is… — Douglas Adams
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,… — Agatha Christie
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith,… — Dorothy Day
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good… — Bill Bruford
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is… — Samuel Beckett
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. — James Russell Lowell
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. — Georges Braque
I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly. — Rod Stewart
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave… — George Bernard Shaw
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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