Shudder Quotes

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire
A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the… — Charles Ferguson
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the… — Bill Tilden
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to… — Saint Augustine
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the… — Alistair Cooke
In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her… — Arthur Miller
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. — Marquis de Sade
Did you know? Did the cross cast a shadow on your cradle? Did you shudder each time your hammer struck a nail? How much heaven… — Todd Agnew
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized… — John Maynard Keynes
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by… — Umberto Eco
We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their livesâ€¦then we cut their throats,… — River Phoenix
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.… — Edith Wharton
Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it's Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger's face into a life. — Manohla Dargis
Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at… — Chad Harbach
In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this… — Jeanette Winterson
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later — Alistair Cooke
No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the… — Marcel Proust
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real… — Brian Lumley
I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land,… — Alcee Hastings
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the… — Marina Warner

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