“What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
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“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Quoted in 3:439 Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 439 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA439&dq=%22when+i+do+good+i+feel+good%22: Inasmuch as he was so often a candidate for public office Mr. Lincoln said as little about his religious code as possible, especially if he failed to coincide with the orthodox world. In illustration of his religious code I once heard him say that it was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." <br class="br">Posthumous attributions
“What is good or bad is not my issue.”
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2014, "GhoshanaPatra with Narendra Modi", 2014
Context: See, you asked the wrong question. What is good or bad is not my issue. If you pick up things from every nook and cranny and demand answers from me, then aise kaam kaise chalega [how will we manage]. Whatever my party’s official stand is, I reflect only that.
A. V. Dicey (1835–1922) British jurist and constitutional theorist
Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution [Eighth Edition, 1915] (LibertyClassics, 1982), p. 116.
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
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“A picture without falls is as bad as Niagara in the same fix”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
Interview in Picture-Play Magazine (December 1920) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt
“[I]t takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.”
Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter
Remark made to Rosemary Clooney, circa summer 1956, regarding Holiday's qualifications to serve as godmother to Clooney's second child, as quoted by Clooney in "Profiles: The Heart, The Head, and The Pipes" http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/_1libraryfiles/newyorker8392.html by Whitney Balliett in The New Yorker (August 3, 1992). "Just before she left, I asked her if she would like to be the godmother of my second child, Maria, who was about to be born, and she said yes, that it takes a bad woman to be a good godmother. It was the last time I saw her."
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953) American novelist
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States