(76 quotes found)
“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again”
Abraham Lincoln
“I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.”
Charlie Brown
“Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.”
William Shakespeare
“The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.”
Cyril Connolly
“We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.”
W. H. Auden
“Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.”
Emily Bronte
“What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.”
Jim Dodge
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
Winston Churchill
