Ghastly Quotes

• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Two Sides, People, Literature

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• Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

  Prince Philip

  Car, Edinburgh, Dukes

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  Otto Dix

  War, Depth, Reason

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• If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

  Prince Philip

  Class, Appreciate, Design

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• The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

  Richard J. Needham

  Normal, Return, Strikes

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• Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Hands, Talent

  Willa Cather (1967). “The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896”, p.408, U of Nebraska Press

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• I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

  Rod Stewart

  Singing, Bathroom, Coming Out

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• If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

  A. P. Herbert

  Life, Learning, Science

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• The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Happiness, Fall, Ends

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• Do you still throw spears at each other?

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Dukes, Classic

  "Prince Philip's Spear 'Gaffe'". Said to Australian Aborigines, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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• If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Ifs

  Remark to Edinburgh University students in Peking, 16 Oct. 1986, in 'The Times' 17 Oct. 1986

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• Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

  Prince Philip

  Leisure, Edinburgh, Complaining

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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• How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

  Prince Philip

  Diamond Jubilee, Long, Tests

  "Prince Philip: His public life in gaffes", edition.cnn.com. May 4, 2017.

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• Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Classic, Wonder

  "Deaf Insulted by Duke's Remark". Said to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, news.bbc.co.uk. May 27, 1999.

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• Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?

  Prince Philip

  Dog, Edinburgh, Classic

  "Duke bounds into guide dog gaffe" by Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2002.

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• As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Children, Adults, Shock

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• Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Rain, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 7

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• What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Body

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• When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

  John Milton

  Should, Horrible, Famine

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.509

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• Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to the latent, darkest prejudices of Germans.

  Richard M Perloff

  Dream, People, History

  Richard M. Perloff (2017). “The Dynamics of Persuasion: Communication and Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century”, p.279, Taylor & Francis

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• Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!

  Moby

  Dream, Liars, Believe

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• Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

  Patrick Macnee

  Lovely, Style, Television

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• Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.

  Mary Balogh

  Regret, Opposites, Numbers

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• But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

  Liam Fox

  Events, Legacy, Pay

  "Liam Fox says Labour economic policies were national security liability" by Helene Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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