Horror

Famous quotes containing the word horror:

    As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
    Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “facts.” They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no “facts” at this table.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    To the horror of all who were present that day,
    He uprose in full evening dress,
    And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say
    What his tongue could no longer express.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)