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No doubt, then, that a free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement. — Augustine Of Hippo

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance. — Nicolas Chamfort

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. — Arthur C. Clarke

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. — Victoria Magazine

Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities. — Elizabeth Peters

The writer's life is frightful — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death. — Hector Abad Faciolince

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. — Mignon McLaughlin

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end. — Frederic Raphael

Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale) — Muse

What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs! — Victor Hugo

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. — Storm Jameson

I may do some good before I am dead
be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. — Thomas Hardy

Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlike
A lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck. — Paul Verlaine

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress. — Clare B. Dunkle

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ... — William Graham Sumner

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse. — Anne Rice

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful. — George MacDonald

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen. — Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. — Hermann Hesse

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson

The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it
thus! — Mary Shelley

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. — Thomas Carlyle

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be. — Albert Einstein

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence. — George Orwell

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber. — Samuel Johnson

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. — Victor Hugo

Oh the weather outside is frightful... — Lois Lowry

Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm. — Johann Ludwig Tieck

Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity. — June Havoc

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy. — Winston S. Churchill

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Slavery is an awful thing," stammered out Kayerts in an unsteady voice. "Frightful - the sufferings," grunted Carlier with conviction. — Joseph Conrad

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be. — Albert Einstein

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you? — Sarah Waters

A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd. — Victor Hugo

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. — Jorge Luis Borges

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Henry Ford

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. — Francoise Sagan

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. — Soren Kierkegaard