Hideous Quotes

220 quotes by 189 authors

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to… — Thomas Carlyle
In Australiaâ€™s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem… — Tony Abbott
Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object? — Max Perutz
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the… — Mary Church Terrell
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. — Joseph O'Connor
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-gardenâ€¦Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its… — Octave Mirbeau
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make… — Ada Cambridge
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,… — John Milton
Tchaikovskyâ€™s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick
If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright. — Harry J. Anslinger
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named… — Paul Dickson
Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation. — Gary L. Francione
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. — Thomas A. Edison
I wouldn't be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq. — Hunter S. Thompson
The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene… — Winston Churchill
It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs. — Prince Philip
There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven. — John E. Douglas
Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate, — Mike Rowe
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic. — James Laver

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