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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore. -- Edgar Allan Poe
By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 'You can call me whatever you like.' Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys. -- Derek Landy
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can change... but it takes blood, sweat and tears. -- Bob Maguire
He looked at Ghastly. "Thoughts?""I want to kill Sanguine," was the first thing Ghastly said. "And I want to do it slowly, in front of a lot of people. Using a hammer."Skulduggery nodded. "Very healthy. -- Derek Landy
So what does that actually mean?' 'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.' 'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said. 'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion. -- Derek Landy
I think marriage is ghastly. -- Rupert Everett
I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly. -- Rod Stewart
If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly. -- Arabella Weir
The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal. -- Richard J. Needham
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. -- Felix Dennis
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. -- Patrick Macnee
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. -- D. H. Lawrence
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows. -- Mark Gatiss
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive? -- Jerry Pournelle
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. -- Otto Dix
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser. -- Bill Bruford
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both. -- Anne Roiphe
For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions. -- Henning Mankell
Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile. -- Jim Carrey
My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting. -- Marianne Faithfull
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. -- Willa Cather
When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. -- James Buchan
I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't. -- Miranda Hart
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? -- Tony Kushner
There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books. -- Terry Pratchett
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans? -- Sylvia Earle
I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem. -- Miranda Hart
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. -- Joanna Lumley
Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease. -- Prince Philip
Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education. -- Paul Delaroche
Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life. -- George Bernard Shaw
Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it? -- Prince Philip
things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse. -- Alice Thomas Ellis
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. -- John Hay Beith
It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it. -- Mark Gatiss
Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly. -- Alec Baldwin
Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd. -- John Milton
Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster. -- Ken Livingstone
I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly. -- Rod Stewart
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. -- Georges Braque
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state. -- Bryce Courtenay
A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist. -- Ilona Andrews
That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination -- Derek Landy
There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence. -- Douglas Adams
If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game. -- Catherine Deneuve
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer. -- Charles Spurgeon
That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly. -- Joanna Lumley
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. -- A. P. Herbert
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. -- A. P. Herbert
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all. -- Gail Carriger
Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake. -- Christopher Hitchens
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny. -- George Arnold
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans. -- Anthony Lewis
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award. -- Steven Morrissey
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. -- James Russell Lowell
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen. -- Claude Bernard
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones. -- Jack Prelutsky
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. -- Louis Kronenberger
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace. -- Karl Marx
The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further. -- D. H. Lawrence
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it. -- D. H. Lawrence
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension. -- Stephen Fry
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to the latent, darkest prejudices of Germans. -- Richard M Perloff
Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe. -- Katharine Whitehorn
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy. -- Liam Fox
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions. -- Henning Mankell
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed. -- David Foster Wallace
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly. -- Robert M. Pirsig
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it. -- William Gibson
As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful. -- Swami Vivekananda
If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly. -- Prince Philip

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