Shocking Quotes

292 quotes by 273 authors

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can… — Jim Dale
There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes. — Ray Dalio
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet. — Tom Felton
'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology… — Tippi Hedren
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. — Damien Hirst
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by… — Aldous Huxley
I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking. — Jessie J
What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive.… — Laura Linney
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify. — Seth MacFarlane
When I watch 'Mad Men' and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I… — Aimee Mullins
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea… — Thomas Paine
There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this… — Michael Phelps
I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut… — Roman Polanski
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when… — Samuel Richardson
I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had… — Pat Robertson
I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment? — Jane Smiley
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. — Tacitus
It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal. — Ashley Tisdale
It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust,… — Mark Udall

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