Hideous Quotes

220 quotes by 189 authors

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. — Kristin Scott Thomas
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was… — Uma Thurman
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. — Simone Weil
Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous. — Henny Youngman
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only… — C.S. Lewis
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… — Jeanette Winterson
My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy. — Tim Burton
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience… — Carrie P Snow
Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where… — Warren Ellis
I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and… — Alan Moore
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless… — Oscar Wilde
But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees… — Albert Camus
Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline… — Megan Whalen Turner
The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! — Edgar Allan Poe
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was… — Arundhati Roy
How hideous is the semicolon. — Samuel Beckett

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