Dreadful Quotes

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.