Lurid Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid… — Learned Hand
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century — Max Beerbohm
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears. — A.C. Grayling
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place… — Joseph Conrad
It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper… — Charles Dickens
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… — William McFee
Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. — Wyndham Lewis
At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the… — Theodore Roosevelt
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to… — Camille Paglia
A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high… — Tim O'Brien
She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldnâ€™t have it. Why… — Ann Brashares
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I… — Joanne Harris
Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And… — David Foster Wallace
Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until… — Don DeLillo
I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid… — Sylvia Plath
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad
I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around… — Sylvia Plath
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. — Joseph Conrad

Who Wrote These Lurid Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 23 Lurid Quotes as follows: