Quotes of Dreadful - somelinesforyou

“ It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,We first endure, then pity, then embrace. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them. ”

- Sparky Anderson

“ There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. ”

- Polybius

“ A good part — and definitely the most fun part — of being a feminist is about frightening men. ”

- Julie Burchill

“ A horrid stillness first invades the ear,And in that silence we the tempest fear. ”

- John Dryden

“ My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ”

- Henry Ford

“ A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. ”

- Sophocles

“ You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do. ”

- Jane Fonda

“ Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ It hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is only good for wallowing in. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning. ”

- Catherine Aird

“ The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. ”

- Marie Bashkirtseff

“ Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God. ”

- Virgil

“ Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. ”

- John Milton

“ We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness. ”

- Sam Shepard

“ While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times. ”

- Robert Southey

“ The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness. ”

- Theodosia Garrison

“ This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. ”

- Ugo Betti
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