Famous quotes containing the word hideous:
“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crimenamely, repressive justice.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing,
Nothing but bones,
The sad effect of sadder grones;
Thy mouth was open, but thou couldst not sing.”
—George Herbert (15931633)
“Squalor spreads its hideous length
through the carts and the asses feet,
squalor coils and reopens
and creeps under barrow
and heap of refuse....”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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