There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. - Victoria Magazine
This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty. - David W. Earle
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. - Søren Kierkegaard
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner. - Mary Shelley
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Hannah More
Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities. - Elizabeth Peters
The writer’s life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm. - Johann Ludwig Tieck
The writer’s life is frightful - Lailah Gifty Akita
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy. - Winston S. Churchill