Quotes About Dreadful

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

The cry, the dreadful cry! I know it--louder and nearer, Circling our Dun--the Ban-Shee!--my heart is frozen to hear her! Saw you not in the darkness a spectral glimmer of white Flitting away?--I saw it!--evil her message tonight.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

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

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

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

What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Truly dreadful sounds ensue. The sounds of human disassembly.

She could only gather, from the silences and evasions amid which she moved, that a woman had turned up—a woman who was of course dreadful, and whose dreadfulness appeared to include a sort of shadowy claim upon Arthur. But the claim, whatever it was, had been promptly discredited.

It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors.

Mr. Earbrass has rashly been skimming through the early chapters, which he had not looked at for months, and now sees TUH for what it is. Dreadful, dreadful , DREADFUL. He must be mad to go on enduring the unexquisite agony of writing when it all turns out drivel. Mad. Why did n't he become a spy? How does one become one? He will burn the MS. Why is there no fire? Why are n't there the makings of one? How did he get in the unused room on the third floor?

When the next pandemic comes, as it surely will someday, perhaps we will be ready to meet it. If we are not, the outcome will be very, very, very dreadful.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

Silence that dreadful bell! it frights the isleFrom her propriety.

My fell of hairWould at a dismal treatise rouse and stirAs life were in 't. I have supp'd full with horrors.

Tut! I have done a thousand dreadful thingsAs willingly as one would kill a fly.

Between the acting of a dreadful thingAnd the first motion, all the interim isLike a phantasma, or a hideous dream:The genius and the mortal instrumentsAre then in council; and the state of man,Like to a little kingdom, suffers thenThe nature of an insurrection.