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)
“I dreaded that first robin so,
But he is mastered now,”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“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)