[ dread Quotes ]



Showing search results for Dread Quotes - 23 quotes about dread - Dictionary Quotes
23 quotes

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Time and Time Management
Joseph Addison

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 981 votes

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Weather
Jane Austen

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1327 votes

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Courage
Georges Bernanos

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1041 votes

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Advice
Josh Billings

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 918 votes

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
Bills
Lord Byron

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 864 votes

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Writers and Writing
Thomas Carlyle

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 730 votes

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Marriage
Cyril Connolly

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 860 votes

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
Fathers
Mary Mapes Dodge

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 759 votes

A burnt child dreads the fire.
Experience
English Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1198 votes

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Common Sense
Henry Fielding

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 823 votes

And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
Conversation
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 747 votes

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Age and Aging
Thomas Jefferson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 614 votes

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.
Death and Dying
Thomas Ken

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 577 votes

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Space
Blaise Pascal

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 715 votes

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Taste
Pablo Picasso

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 768 votes

A scalded cat dreads cold water.
Fear
Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 915 votes

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Present
Charles M. Schulz

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 679 votes

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Critics and Criticism
Hans Selye

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 747 votes

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Leaders and Leadership
Seneca

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 751 votes

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty
George Bernard Shaw

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 702 votes

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Pride
Fulton John Sheen

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 803 votes

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Critics and Criticism
William Gilmore Simms

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 601 votes

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.
Fear
Source Unknown

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 736 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun