Famous quotes containing the word horrid:
“Moneys a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”
—Henry James (18431916)
“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that ... is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
“With a whirl of thought oppressed
I sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)