Hideous Quotes
220 quotes by 189 authors
-
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid…
— William S. Burroughs
-
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
-
Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
-
Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not…
— Cassandra Clare
-
I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died…
— M.F.K. Fisher
-
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design…
— Connie Willis
-
God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted…
— Marian Keyes
-
You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul…
— Karen Maitland
-
Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.
— Charlotte Bronte
-
It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it…
— Jonathan Stroud
-
They’re not hideous,†said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?†“Gideon and Gabriel,†said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.†“I spoke, 
— Cassandra Clare
-
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the…
— Wilfred Owen
-
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the…
— Charles Dickens
-
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
— Oscar Wilde
-
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it…
— Suzanne Collins
-
I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
— Oscar Wilde
-
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous…
— William Shakespeare
-
I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or…
— Jim Butcher
-
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics…
— Donna Tartt
-
Why Alexia that is quite beautiful. It does ot reflect your customary taste at all approved Miss Hisselpenny with glee. Trust Ivy to like the…
— Gail Carriger
Who Wrote These Hideous Quotes
189 authors contributed a total of 220 Hideous Quotes, led by these top contributors: