Damned Quotes - page 6

That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street." "No," said Locke, before taking another deep draught of the warm water in the decanter. "I got it from the neck of the governor's mistress." "You can't be serious." "In the governor's manor." "Of all the-" "In the governor's bed." "Damned lunatic!" "With the governor sleeping next to her... It is possible," said Locke with a sheepish grin, "that I have been slightly too bold. (Scott Lynch)
Probably, I wound up-if not as a jack-of-all-trades-at best as a thirdrate polymath never able to focus these curiosities into a commanding "view of life.” The most practical solution appeared to be to make a profession of observation, to become a reporter simply, a profession easily damned as that of a fence-sitter, a moral coward unwilling to take a stand, a chronic water-treader who lacks the strength to take the plunge. To these strictures, I can only reply that once every four years at least I take a stand: I vote. And immediately afterward return to my reporting habits and the continuing discovery that in life the range of irreconcilable points of view, characters, flaws, idiosyncrasies and virtues is astounding, and that in politics there is very often much to be said on both sides, and sometimes on three or four. View quote
Alistair Cooke
Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls. View quote
Eoin Colfer
Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already. View quote
Eoin Colfer
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first. View quote
George Canning
Why do they do it?" whispered Horeb. "Their eyes, you mean?" said Rek. "Yes. How can a man put out his own eyes?" "Damned if I know. They say it aids their visions." "Sounds about as sensible as cutting off your staff in order to aid your sex life. View quote
David Gemmell
I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Now I'm sitting quietly at home again and I'm happy to be able to work undisturbed. I made a lot of sketches of life in Germany and it was very intriguing to see life there [in Berlin, a stay for three weeks]. I was also glad to see the old pictures of Rembrandt, Dürer, etc. again and to have the confirmation and encouragement they gave me. As for the moderns, I saw damned little that gripped me... Modern German painting has moved so far away from me and become unintelligible in areas in which my work had, and still has, an influence; but people like Klee, Kandinsky, etc. have moved much closer to me again, in fact I value the Bauhaus more and more. These people are working and developing. You can see that there is development. And they love their work, which is the main thing. View quote
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything. (Cassandra Clare)
I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work." He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I just... I don't know how I got here." "I could probably retrace our steps. Straight through the faerie corridor, left at the decimated village, right at the blasted plain of the damned, sharp U-turn at the heap of dead demon. View quote
Cassandra Clare
If I had only loved your flesh And careless damned your soul to Hell, I might have laughed and loved afresh, And loved as lightly and as well, And little more to tell. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. View quote
Rebecca West
Ophelia was a cyclone, tempest a god damned hurricane your common sense your best defense lay wasted and in vain. View quote
Natalie Merchant
Sometimes he wears the crown,” Magnus Stepney once remarked, "and sometimes, by the grace of God, he takes the damned thing off. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
I called him because it made me so damned angry to think of that bastard sentencing a citizen for four months of hard labor for a minor traffic offense and screwing up my brother's campaign and making our country look ridiculous before the world. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. View quote
Robert Burton
You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay. View quote
Kage Baker
I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren't bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones. (Kage Baker)
this is the upside of already being eternally damned. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Golf always makes me so damned angry. View quote
George V of the United Kingdom
I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien. View quote
George V of the United Kingdom
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow! View quote
Dorothy Parker