Hideous

Famous quotes containing the word hideous:

    War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment;
    We, we alone, Nereids inviolate,
    Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant:
    Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
    More hideous when thou show’st thee in a child
    Than the sea-monster.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I mourn the safe and motherly old middle-class queen, who held the nation warm under the fold of her big, hideous Scotch-plaid shawl and whose duration had been so extraordinarily convenient and beneficent. I felt her death much more than I should have expected; she was a sustaining symbol—and the wild waters are upon us now.
    Henry James (1843–1916)