“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Variant: I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Source: As quoted in My Fellow Americans : The Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents (2003) by Michael Waldman, p. 137
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Variant: I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
“Never did these thanes of hell escape their just deserts.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part I: Icelandic Pioneers
Context: Never did these thanes of hell escape their just deserts. No one ever heard of Harekur or Gongu-Hrolfur or Bernotus being worsted in the final struggle. In the same way no one will be able to say that Bjartur of Summerhouses ever got the worst of it in his world war with the country's specters, no matter how often he might tumble over a precipice or roll head over heels down a gully - "while there's a breath left in my nostrils, it will never keep me down, no matter how hard it blows."
“But the truth is, I don't have ADD. I have OKHY: OK, hell yeah.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
" Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/01/queens-stone-age-like-clockwork" The Guardian (June 1, 2013)
“I look back and think I'm a smart person! What the hell was I thinking?”
Britney Spears (1981) American singer, dancer and actress
Britney: For the Record (2008).
Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) Cuban artist
On adopting a new form of painting in Cuba in “Wifredo Lam: the unlikely comeback of the Cuban Picasso” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/wifredo-lam-the-unlikely-comeback-of-the-cuban-picasso/ in The Telegraph (2016 Aug 31)
“I think some people call this love. I call it hell.”
Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses
Source: Vampire Kisses
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Jack Finney book Time and Again
Source: Time and Again (1970), Chapter 8 (p. 108)
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell…”
Philip Sheridan (1831–1888) United States Army general
http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/04/30/sheridan-hell-and-texas/
Many newspapers stated that he had said this, and later on in his life he repeated it in variations.