Famous quotes containing the word frighten:
“It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I know you’re here.... What’s wrong? Are you afraid to speak up? Is that all you’re good for, to frighten women? Well, I’m not afraid of you. Whoever heard of a cowardly ghost?”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)
“What has this bugbear Death to frighten man,
If souls can die, as well as bodies can?”
—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)