Hideous Quotes
220 quotes by 189 authors
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There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the…
— Jose Ramos-Horta
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One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think that’s our…
— Mary Karr
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we…
— John Cheever
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The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts…
— Helen Fielding
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Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
— Hannah More
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It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
— Edward Dahlberg
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
— Sam Neill
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I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted.…
— Charlize Theron
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I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So…
— Jayma Mays
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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.
— John Milton
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Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they…
— Jennifer Coolidge
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Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some…
— Elisha Cuthbert
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From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of…
— Joseph Fiennes
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Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a…
— Jean Lorrain
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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely…
— Mark Twain
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Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
— Leonard Woolf
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