Hideous Quotes
220 quotes by 189 authors
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a…
— Matthew Arnold
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
— Dave Barry
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
— Manolo Blahnik
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I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.
— Jo Brand
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When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the…
— Jo Brand
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
— William S. Burroughs
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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
— Noam Chomsky
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In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities,…
— Noam Chomsky
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The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.
— Julian Clary
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Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most…
— Peter McWilliams
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
— Virginia Woolf
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than…
— Margaret E. Knight
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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments…
— Greil Marcus
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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
— George Orwell
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Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the…
— Marquis de Sade
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort…
— Victor Hugo
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
— Oscar Wilde
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These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.
— Scarlett Johansson
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