Bad Quotes - page 5

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. (Mary McCarthy)
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. View quote
Mary McCarthy
If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. View quote
Thomas Browne
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. (W. C. Fields)
We cannot make good news out of bad practice. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. View quote
Publilius Syrus
It is bad advice that cannot be changed. View quote
Publilius Syrus
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. View quote
George Gissing
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. View quote
Douglas Adams
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. View quote
H. G. Wells
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. (Ingrid Bergman)
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one. View quote
Hesiod
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. View quote
Denis Diderot
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. View quote
Denis Diderot
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. View quote
Denis Diderot