Famous quotes containing the word dreaded:
“The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I dreaded that first robin so,
But he is mastered now,”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)