Quotes with hideous

  • One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
  • When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

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  • Oscar Wilde Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dave Barry Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Marquis de Sade Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Arthur Sullivan For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
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  • Arthur Sullivan I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
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  • Ada Cambridge Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • Bertrand Russell Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Stendhal Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anthony Trollope Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Greil Marcus Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Octave Mirbeau The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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  • Desiderius Erasmus They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • C. P. Snow When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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