horrid quotes

Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing.

-Joseph Butler
Comment to  John Wesley. Quoted in  John Wesley  Works, pt.13.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

- Henry James
Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Attributed to Longfellow by Blanch Roosevelt Tucker Macchetta in The Home Life of Henry  W. Longfellow (1882).

A most horrid malicious bloody flame† It made me weep to see it.

- Samuel Pepys
  Observing the Great Fire of London. Diary entry, 2 Sep.