Dreadfully Quotes

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.