“I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen.”
Avril Lavigne (1984) Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
"The Best Damn Thing" on The Best Damn Thing (2007)
Source: Honor's Splendour
“I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen.”
Avril Lavigne (1984) Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
"The Best Damn Thing" on The Best Damn Thing (2007)
“For one has the right to shout.
So, I am shouting.”
Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Variant: They're a rotten lot," I shouted, across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Source: The Great Gatsby
Jim Steinman (1947) American musician
Bat out of Hell (1977), Bat out of Hell (song)
Context: Nothing ever grows in this rotten old hole
And everything is stunted and lost
And nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls
And nothing's ever worth the cost. And I know that I'm damned if I never get out
And maybe I'm damned if I do
But with every other beat I got left in my heart
You know I'd rather be damned with you.
“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
From the German (In Hyperion).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) American poet
"The Way of the World".
Variant: A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But their sires disputed about the Mass,
And so it might not be.
“I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.”
George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
Allegedly said in response to H. G. Wells's criticism of his "alien [i.e. German-descended] and uninspiring court"
Attributed
“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”
Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) Venezuelan military and political leader, South American libertador
A statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words, and portrayed as such in The General in His Labyrinth (1990) by Gabriel García Márquez, as translated by Edith Grossman, p. 267.