Hideous Quotes

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous! - Richard Rogers

You have to remember that what we perceive now as kitschy or campy was not the intention when these decorations were originally produced. They were produced to be cute. We may look at them now and go, 'Oh, my God, that's hideous.' But back then it was considered charming. - Travis Smith

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously. - Bob Balaban

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. - Saint Augustine

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. - Ludovico Ariosto

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall! - Victor Hugo

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. - Carrie P. Snow

When somebody meets somebody in that situation, they are often intensely emotionally affected by the hideousness of the situation. - Mike Farrell

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. - John Cheever

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin ... The Justice Game. - Geoffrey Robertson