“The world in all doth but two nations bear —
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.”
The Loyal Scot (1650-1652).
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Andrew Marvell35
English metaphysical poet and politician 1621–1678Related quotes
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
Source: Me: Stories of My Life
“good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere”
Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman
“Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both,
you don't belong with us.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Source: The Essential Rumi (1995), Ch. 19 : Jesus Poems
Context: The cure for pain is in the pain.
Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both,
you don't belong with us.
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.
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Source: The Freedom of a Christian (1520), pp. 74-75
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) British writer
The Problem http://www.bartleby.com/40/197.html.
“Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.”
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Variant: It takes all sorts to make a world.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4
Context: The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
