Famous quotes containing the word hideous:
“They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 14661536)
“Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou showst thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“In the cold of Europe, under prudish northern fogs, except when slaughter is afoot, you only glimpse the crawling cruelty of your fellow men. But their rottenness rises to the surface as soon as they are tickled by the hideous fevers of the tropics.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (18941961)
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