Frights Quotes

#1. The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#2. I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.

George R R Martin

#3. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women ... He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights.

Jane Austen

#4. It's a bad place, brother. All ruins and bare rock. Only ever seen it from a distance and it gave me the frights. Something in the air (...) Just feels bad. The Lonak call it Maars Nir-Uhlin Sol, the Place of the Stolen Souls.

Anthony Ryan

#5. The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

Meredith Hall

#6. Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

Mason Cooley

#7. My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.

Rob Roberge

#8. Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

Ben Jonson

#9. The only reason anything's wrong is because someone says it is.

Rose Foster

#10. Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Maryon Pearson

#11. Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

Mason Cooley

#12. It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

John Irving

#13. I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had a different punishment for me, some of them shocking indeed.

Richard Llewellyn

#14. He frequently observed, as he walked out, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he stood in a shop in Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them.

Jane Austen

#15. The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Mason Cooley

#16. I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

Adriana Trigiani

#17. I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

Jane Austen