It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  One Fat Englishman, ch.14.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  Of the final moments of the1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  His Last Bow,'Wisteria Lodge'.

Savoir qu'il existe des passions et ne pas le ressentir, c'est affreux. To know thatthereare passions and tonot feelany, that is horrible.

-Vian, Boris
  L'Herbe rouge.