
“It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship."
"It's awful worse luck not to.”
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“It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship."
"It's awful worse luck not to.”
About a White House Correspondents’ Dinner with former President Barack Obama.
The NFL Would Not Have Banned A Donald Sterling For Life (May 7, 2014)
“And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.”
Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
“For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.”
Said on the aeroplane after visiting Northern Ireland for the first time.
Attributed
“It's shocking the things we call love.”
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!”
Quote by Nigel Farage on David Cameron's speech on Britain's relationship with the European Union, 23 January 2013 - Ukip's Nigel Farage ridicules David Cameron's EU referendum speech. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/23/ukip-nigel-farage-david-cameron-eu-referendum-speech
2013
Source: This and That and the Other (1912), Ch. XXXII : The Barbarians , p. 282
Context: In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this that he cannot make; that he can befog or destroy, but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilisation exactly that has been true.
We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid.
We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us: we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile.
The Abolition of Man (1943)
Context: And all the time — such is the tragi-comedy of our situation — we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more “drive”, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or “creativity”. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.