Dreadful Quotes

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Nature
  • Reasons

• Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Society
  • Possible

• 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.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Important
  • Bad

• The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Thing

• How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this — for this — I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sad
  • Young

• The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Cruelty
  • Ardent

• This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Will
  • Dreadful
  • Wallpaper

• Let this iniquity be viewed in its true magnitude, and in the shocking light in which it has been set in this conversation; let the wretched case of the poor blacks be considered with proper pity and benevolence, together with the probably dreadful consequence to this land of retaining them in bondage, and all objection against liberating them would vanish.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Land
  • Consequence
  • Retaining

• If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sacrifice
  • Eternity

• Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Illness
  • Idleness
  • Dreadful

• I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • Wavelenght

• If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Dilemma
  • Dreadful

• The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Survive

• [On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

  

  Jeane Dixon
  • Dreadful
  • Assassination
  • President Kennedy

• How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

  

  Sophocles
  • Judge
  • Right
  • Dreadful

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

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Master
  • Dreadful

• In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Breakfast
  • Brilliant

• Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Death
  • Silence
  • Dreadful

• Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Question
  • Experiences
  • Dreadful

• I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Depression
  • Awful
  • Dreadful