Horror

Famous quotes containing the word horror:

    To the horror of all who were present that day,
    He uprose in full evening dress,
    And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say
    What his tongue could no longer express.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    That’s why I’ve come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I’m powerless to fight alone.
    —Edward T. Lowe. Erle C. Kenton. Count Dracula (John Carradine)