Top 100 A Bad Man Quotes
#1. A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H.L. Mencken
#2. With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles ... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo
#3. Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it ... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.
E.B. White
#6. There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#7. If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#8. If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint Augustine
#9. There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.
Charlton Heston
#10. I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
Ivan Turgenev
#11. He was not, by the standard definitions, a bad man; in the same way a plague-bearing rat is not, from a dispassionate point of view, a bad animal.
Terry Pratchett
#12. If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you'll understand what a bad man's reputation is built on. I've had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of
Doc Holliday
#13. What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.
Edward St. Aubyn
#15. Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Sophocles
#16. What is a good man?
Simply one whose life is useful to the world.
And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others.
There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness.
These are the worst of all.
Zhang Zhao
#17. A good man is but a bad man's teacher, and a bad man is but a good man's job.
Wayne W. Dyer
#18. A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.
John Le Carre
#19. I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.
Gavrilo Princip
#20. I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
Glen Cook
#21. Even a bad man is better than a good book.
Maxim Gorky
#22. What is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?
Bryce Courtenay
#23. Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#24. Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
John McAfee
#26. I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect ... instead I choose Chaka Khan ... and vodka ... Bridget Jones
Helen Fielding
#27. I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
Muhammad Ali
#28. 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
#29. You're not a bad man or a stupid man, what you are is a white man.
Barbra-Lee Stephen
#30. There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
Edmund Burke
#31. When you're not a good man yourself you respect a good man. Now I'd prefer to die with a good man around. A good man teaches a lot of nonsense and a bad man teaches truth [...] I'm not the one to teach the boy nonsense.
Graham Greene
#32. All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.
Christina Stead
#33. It took everything I had to bite back a little squee of excitement, because there's not a woman on earth who doesn't secretly want to ride off into the sunset with a bad man on a bike .
Joanna Wylde
#34. A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
Massad Ayoob
#35. Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.
Vasily Grossman
#36. I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
Woody Guthrie
#37. It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.
Agatha Christie
#38. I was a bad child. Fortunately, I've come a long way since then. Now I'm a bad man.
Brent Weeks
#39. The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.
Raekwon
#40. If you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.
Plato
#41. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher. What is a bad man but a good man's job.
Lao-Tzu
#42. The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
John Major
#43. A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky
#44. A bad man is a good man's job
Lao-Tzu
#46. A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Victor Hugo
#47. And I know Blake had a bunch of fucking problems going on the night he was shot. But Mouse here made sure the hired guns were dead before they could hurt him. I don't know if I get to call him a hero, if that's allowed, because I'm a bad man, and he was my friend. But he was a hero to me.
Debra Anastasia
#48. He was a bad man, a bully and a thug, yet he was deeply religious in his way - I very much doubt that he would have made such a thing up. It was not his sort of lie, if you know what I mean.
Gene Wolfe
#49. A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
Aristotle.
#50. I'm a big Brad Pitt fan. He's really talented. I think a lot of men are intimidated by him, saying he's just a pretty boy or whatever, but he is a bad man. I think he can act.
Ice-T
#51. I am a bad man, very bad, but in a different way. I want to ravish you until we're both senseless with it, and then I want to do it all over again.
Jennifer Ashley
#52. So a good man can be a bad Christian?"
"I suppose so."
"Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christian?
Bernard Cornwell
#53. It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.
Aristotle.
#54. Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#55. Everyone does it. It doesn't mean you're a bad man. It just means you're not as good of one as you should be.
D.C. Juris
#56. The powers which enable evil to carry on are powers given it by goodness. All the things which enable a bad man to be effectively bad are in themselves good things - resolution, cleverness, good looks, existence itself.
C.S. Lewis
#57. Karna a bad man doing good things or is he a good man doing bad things?
Kavita Kane
#58. There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.
Nnedi Okorafor
#59. When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
Confucius
#60. No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself
Plato
#61. A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#62. Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it.
Anthony Trollope
#64. I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.
Janet Suzman
#65. Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.
Rich Cohen
#66. You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe
But you're back were you belong
Bob Dylan
#67. There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
Euripides
#68. Above the sink in the scratched mirror he looked grubby and bloated, his beard a grizzled mess. He knew what these men could never know: A man is who he is. That doesn't change. A thief is a thief. A bad man stays a bad man underneath. He'd been set at seventeen. "You want to end
Rae Meadows
#69. In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.
Bertrand Russell
#70. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#71. When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
Confucius
#72. Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil
Hesiod
#73. Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Hesiod
#74. Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
Philo
#75. A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
Francis Bacon
#76. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
Thomas Hardy
#79. Who would have thought God would send a bad man and a sheriff just to save Prince?
Debra Holland
#80. The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
John Eldredge
#81. I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.
W.B.Yeats
#82. The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
Euripides
#83. As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?
Laozi
#85. I haven't been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don't feel good, and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man.
Manny Ramirez
#86. He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation
Mario Puzo
#87. The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice
that is, all excess
brings its own punishment even here.
Charles Caleb Colton
#88. She was about the single nicest human being he'd ever met, but she'd kill anybody she considered a bad man faster than a farmwife would wring the neck of a chicken. With Faye, once you crossed a certain line, your life was worth nothing.
Larry Correia
#89. I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.
Muhammad Ali
#90. The only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what a good man does or a bad man
Plato
#91. If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.
Shams Tabrizi
#92. My daughter wants to throw a stone at a bad man. I stop her from throwing, shaking my head and giving her a little slap. My disapproval is complete. You think: 'That's right, she shouldn't throw a stone even at a villain.' Then I hand her a brick to throw.
W.C. Fields
#93. I get fans stopping me and telling me what a bad man I am. I got a lot of that at Comic-Con. I'd tell them, 'Sorry, mate.'
David Bradley
#94. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
George Lillo
#95. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people.
Charlton Heston
#96. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
John Steinbeck
#98. Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#99. Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#100. A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.
Homer
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