Lurid Quotes

23 Lurid quotes by 19 unique 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 couldn’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
• You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger… — Ron Reagan
• It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who Wrote These Lurid Quotes

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

• 3 Lurid Quotes by Joseph Conrad
• 2 Lurid Quotes by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Lurid Quote by Wyndham Lewis
• 1 Lurid Quote by William McFee
• 1 Lurid Quote by Tim O'Brien
• 1 Lurid Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Lurid Quote by Ron Reagan
• 1 Lurid Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1 Lurid Quote by Max Beerbohm
• 1 Lurid Quote by Learned Hand
• 1 Lurid Quote by Joanne Harris
• 1 Lurid Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Lurid Quote by Don DeLillo
• 1 Lurid Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Lurid Quote by Chinua Achebe
• 1 Lurid Quote by Charles Dickens
• 1 Lurid Quote by Camille Paglia
• 1 Lurid Quote by Ann Brashares
• 1 Lurid Quote by A.C. Grayling