Top 578 Dreadful Quotes & Sayings

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.

When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

Hillary Clinton's record in office is dreadful. Her ideas are dreadful. They will make us less safe. So, but there is no way I'm going to vote for a guy who is just totally uninformed, un-presidential as Donald Trump is.

That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today

Love can make us do dreadful things.

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?

So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.

Tony Blair is a dreadful man; really truly dreadful.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.

When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.