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I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading. — Sean Bean

I hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me. — Charlaine Harris

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. — John Galsworthy

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. — Charles Darwin

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen

Oh, isn't it good to be alive--like this? Wouldn't it be dreadful if one had never lived? — L.M. Montgomery

What do you mean fainted?
Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors. — Ilona Andrews

It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live. — Victor Hugo

They'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown
not even he was that dreadful a novelist. — Philip Roth

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's so dreadful to be poor! — Louisa May Alcott

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions — Sherif A. El-Mawardy

In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this — Marcus Aurelius

The carpeting on the stair risers caught, racing up to the first-floor level as if to tell dreadful good news. — Stephen King

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you. — Catherynne M Valente

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

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." — Charles Spurgeon

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

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

Oh! It is dreadful...that one is almost always separated from those ones loves dearly and is encumbered with those one dislikes. -Queen Victoria — Cecil Woodham-Smith

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. — John Gay

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful. — S.A. Tawks

He didn't fear much, but being locked away in a room was dreadful. He'd rather die than be locked away. — Jeff Carroll

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. — Oscar Wilde

It's dreadful to feel alone and really be alone. But — Eleanor Catton

Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin. — Aniruddha Sastikar

I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one — Susanna Clarke

The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened. — Lemony Snicket

Lord have mercy upon mankind.
Deliver and save the world from the dreadful EBOLA VIRUS. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood? — Henryk Sienkiewicz

No, Harry, I have done too many dreadful things in my life. I am not going to do any more. I began my good actions yesterday. — Oscar Wilde

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma. — Francis Bacon

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties. — Lena Headey

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people ... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. — L.M. Montgomery

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. — William Shakespeare

I feel as if I'm waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart. — Thomas F. Wilson

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us. — Lois Lowry

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. — Jane Austen

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis

Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years ... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure. — L.M. Montgomery

It's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! — Jean Webster

It must be dreadful to be a grown-up if a party in an everydayish schoolroom could seem just as pleasant to you as a picnic — Margaret Epp

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart

Dreadful science can pass for seminal research in the field of obesity. — Gary Taubes

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him. — J.M. Barrie

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

How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth. — Sophocles

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway. — Michael O'Donoghue

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order. — Hans F. Sennholz

There is nothing more dreadful in the world than to live in somebody else's house, eating his bread and doing nothing in return for it. — George Orwell

How can girls like to have lovers and refuse them? I think it's dreadful. — Louisa May Alcott

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember. — Angela Lansbury

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves? — Jean Racine

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful. — Martin Freeman

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. — Judith Martin

Prepare yourself for something dreadful. — Jane Austen

For all things are less dreadful than they seem. — William Wordsworth

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody. — Joy Browne

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

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. — A.S. Byatt

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. — Eric Idle

But the dreadful thing about wicked ideas is that bit by bit wicked minds can become accustomed to them. — Alexandre Dumas

Of all of Napoleon's murders, the greatest and the most dreadful was of my father. — Elias Canetti

The sublords of Hell trembled. This was going to be dreadful. It might even result in a memo. — Terry Pratchett

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. — William Shakespeare

DRACO looks up at HARRY, and for the first time- at the bottom of this dreadful pit- they look at each other as friends. — J.K. Rowling

It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom. — Georgette Heyer

But if you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it. — G.K. Chesterton

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' — Doris Lessing

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Staring at the old woman, while a dreadful thought strolled nonchalantly into her head and gave her brain a cheery wave. — Anonymous

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star. — L.M. Montgomery

I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones ... — Jane Goldman

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen. — Oprah Winfrey

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people. — Bryant McGill

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

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. — Louisa May Alcott

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color. — Major Taylor

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted. — Yancy Butler

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

Design is a dreadful form of expression — Philippe Starck

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. — Stephen Ambrose

I'd gotten used to hallucinations - but who can get used to the doubt that one of those dreadful visions is real? — John Berryman

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day

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

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. — L.M. Montgomery

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. — Pablo Picasso

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time — Robert Earl Keen

I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter. — Allen Ginsberg

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name. — Jamie Farr

At least nothing particularly dreadful was happening to him right now. Probably it was only a matter of time. — Terry Pratchett

Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild — Oscar Wilde

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Husbands came and husbands went, but dreadful hair lasted forever. — Celeste Bradley

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

For the dreadful scourge has returned, and once more warriors must walk the green fields of England! — Steve Hockensmith