Famous quotes containing the word hideous:
“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 symboland the wild waters are upon us now.”
—Henry James (18431916)
“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)
“Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou showst thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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