Bad Quotes - page 4

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. (W. Somerset Maugham)
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. View quote
Colin Powell
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. View quote
John Ruskin
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. View quote
Norman Mailer
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. View quote
Washington Irving
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. View quote
Gertrude Stein
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. (William Saroyan)
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck. View quote
Joseph Heller
Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything. View quote
Tim Allen
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing. View quote
Ray Liotta
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. View quote
Bryan Ferry
I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people. View quote
Morarji Desai
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. View quote
Colette
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. View quote
Colette
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. View quote
George Washington
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. View quote
Robert Browning
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership. (Harriet Harman)
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
England's not a bad country. It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. View quote
Margaret Drabble
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. View quote
Anton LaVey
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