Frightful

Famous quotes containing the word frightful:

“At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)

“In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more shattering.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)

“A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)