Quotes with dreadful

  • The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
  • The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

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  • Joseph Addison Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Sydney Smith Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Josh Billings Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Albert Camus 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.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Albert Camus Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • C. S. Forester Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Samuel Johnson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brigham Young Is there war in our religion? No; neither war nor bloodshed. Yet our enemies cry out bloodshed, and oh, what dreadful men these Mormons are, and those Danites! how they slay and kill! Such is all nonsense and folly in the extreme. The wicked slay the wicked, and they will lay it on the Saints.
    Danites Journal of Discourses, 12:30 (Apr. 7 1867)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Andrew Cherry Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers.
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Harriet Tubman Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Philip K. Dick 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.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Jane Austen Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Boris Johnson The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
    Whats wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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