Horrid Quotes

77 Horrid quotes by 65 unique authors

It is horrid to smirk. — Helen Fielding
"From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome which… — Nesta Helen Webster
I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid… — Nina Bawden
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the… — A. E. Hotchner
You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things… — Charles Kingsley
Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt. — John Dryden
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties… — Thomas Paine
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the… — Dylan Thomas
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. — Henry James
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward,… — Mary McCarthy
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were… — Thomas Paine
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has… — George Washington
In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On… — Charles Baudelaire
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't… — Djuna Barnes
I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick… — Evelyn Waugh
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning… — Evelyn Waugh
X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI.… — John Keats
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite… — Hector Hugh Munro
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can… — Dylan Thomas
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone… — Djuna Barnes
We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of… — Anne Rice
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
I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari… — Maria V. Snyder
Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings,… — Melissa Marr
There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . .… — William Makepeace Thackeray

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