Dreadful Quotes

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

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.

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

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.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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.

The pain caused to the parents by this dreadful sequence of events is unforgivable. I am deeply sorry.

No more Mrs. Nice Guy, she's such a dreadful bore./ I'm into vivisection, not polishing the floor.

I always vowed I'd never wear Liz's dreadful mini-skirts again, but now it looks like I will!

It's incredible to think that such dreadful things are still happening in a country like Canada, in a country that can hardly be considered undeveloped. We're not living in caves any more.

Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.

Similar to the [SE Asian] tsunami tragedy, this hurricane is another dreadful natural disaster that these ruthless hackers are exploiting in order to break into computers for spamming, extortion, and theft.