Quotes about damn
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“Damn, that werewolf melts my butter,” Mari sighed. “He’s so miserable,” she added delightedly.”
Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge
“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”
“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”
In a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Context: By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have.
Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).
“You dress her in a wet T-shirt and make her carry the bags? Damn, Cade, I like how you roll" - Rok”
Source: Dark Desires After Dusk
Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”
Source: Oceans of Fire
“Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.”
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”
“Double damn. I was a harlot. I was a freaking vampire hussy.”
Source: Dead Witch Walking
“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”
Source: Runemarks
“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….”
Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
“The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.”
Source: Sing You Home
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
Source: Flashman at the Charge
“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“It's just a crazy damned life, that's all…”
Source: Water for Elephants
“Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says”
Source: Rush
“It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
Variant: It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
Source: Pulp
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
“this is the upside of already being eternally damned”
Source: Survivor
“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
Source: Post Office (1971)
“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.”
Variant: Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14
“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“Damn, you have no idea what I have been through today."
"Actually I have a pretty good idea.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”
Source: Among Others
“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?”
Source: The God of Small Things
“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”
Source: Ordinary People
“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”
Source: High Stakes Seduction
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Source: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days
Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
Source: Gone with the Wind
Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
16 August 1925
Source: Enough Rope (1926)
“You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.”
Source: Calamity
“I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.”
Source: Honor's Splendour
When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks
Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)
Source: The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
Context: Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbors, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.