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Ghastly Quotes

If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

Remark to Edinburgh University students in Peking, 16 Oct. 1986, in 'The Times' 17 Oct. 1986

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.2638, Book House

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.29, Pan Macmillan

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

Mark Gatiss (2005). “Vesuvius Club”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

"Livingstone and the 'morons' have killed off the Routemaster" by Philip Johnston, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 24, 2005.