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Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die -- Tamora Pierce
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. -- Aldous Huxley
Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships. -- Sophocles
Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business. -- Brian Jacques
Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival. -- Edmund White
My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst. -- Mark Billingham
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. -- Matthew Henry
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. -- Josh Billings
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. -- George Santayana
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson
My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted. -- Yancy Butler
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. -- Jane Austen
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. -- Ella Maillart
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. -- Albert Camus
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
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
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
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. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. -- J. D. Hayworth
I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade. -- Al Alvarez
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
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
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
I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God. -- Ellen G. White
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. -- Otto Dix
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. -- George Orwell
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
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. -- Jules Verne
I used to have quite long hair, and I decided that I wanted to get it cut. I'd never met the person who did it, and she cut it into some kind of dreadful mullet. It looked like a triangle on my head. The other kids were merciless. -- Jonathan Stroud
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
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully. -- Will Self
Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. -- Julie Walters
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. -- Joseph Addison
I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player. -- Christopher Heyerdahl
Love can make us do dreadful things. -- Ann Aguirre
Design is a dreadful form of expression -- Philippe Starck
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. -- M. F. K. Fisher
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter -- Allen Ginsberg
Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects. -- Mike Jeffries
I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive. -- Delia Smith
Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart. -- Thomas F. Wilson
For all things are less dreadful than they seem. -- William Wordsworth
I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. -- Ray Bradbury
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. -- Stephen Ambrose
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. -- William Shakespeare
Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes. -- William March
Hindsight is always easier than the dreadful moment of decision. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful. -- S.A. Tawks
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful? -- Sinclair Lewis
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. -- Gautama Buddha
Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed. -- Davy Jones
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! -- Sophocles
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. -- Lewis Carroll
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. -- John Steinbeck
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. -- Thomas Carlyle
This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. -- Oscar Wilde
It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly. -- Emmanuelle Riva
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. -- Oscar Wilde
To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing. -- Monica Lewinsky
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat. -- Duke of Wellington
What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. -- Mary Mapes Dodge
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too. -- Oscar Wilde
The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments. -- Alexis Denisof
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It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage. -- Sarah Ferguson
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects. -- Oscar Wilde
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. -- Pablo Picasso
Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor. -- Sophocles
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. -- Ray Bradbury
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines. -- Hallie Ephron
A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. -- Judith Martin
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. -- Martin Amis
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves. -- Jane Addams
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. -- Jules Renard
That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away. -- Walter Scott
My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember. -- Angela Lansbury
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women? -- Gene Stratton-Porter
Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea? -- Noel Coward
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! -- Sophocles
I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body. -- Anna Akhmatova
Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order. -- Hans F. Sennholz
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. -- Horace
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences. -- Lincoln Child
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. -- Jane Austen
All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. -- Vladimir Nabokov
[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today. -- Jeane Dixon
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. -- Eric Idle
I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child. -- Jodi Picoult
It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description. -- Lesley Manville
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. -- John Gay
How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. -- Caroline Stevermer
It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another. -- Mark Twain
It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid. -- Vita Sackville-West
there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart. -- Loren Eiseley
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. -- Mark Lawson
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' -- Doris Lessing
Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress? -- Jeremy Corbyn
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. -- John Jay Chapman
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color. -- Major Taylor
Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. -- Dorothy Day
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time -- Robert Earl Keen
It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there. -- Glenn Morrison
To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to. -- Brian Froud
Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions -- Sherif A. El-Mawardy
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness. -- Simone de Beauvoir
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves? -- Jean Racine
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. -- W. H. Auden
I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling. -- Woody Harrelson

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