Top 100 Be Damned Quotes
#1. He would be damned if he fell prey to love's debilitating thrall.
Sophie Jordan
#2. But shall we be happy, to say that we live in the dusk rather than in the full night? Shall we rejoice that we shall only suffer, while your offspring will be the ones to know the torments of the damned? Shall this be why we do not act?
Robin Hobb
#3. Wo-ho!" said the coachman. "So, then! One more pull and you're at the top and be damned to you, for I have had trouble enough to get you to it! - Joe!
Charles Dickens
#4. Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
James Lovelock
#5. And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned.
Laini Taylor
#6. A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
Robert A. Heinlein
#7. Similar situation ? Like the one where you put me in fear for my life, then let go of that damned vine to heartlessly build my fear ? MacRieve, I hope I enthralled you. Then you can rot wanting me to be yours.
Kresley Cole
#8. Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.
Brian Clough
#9. Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
Fernando Pessoa
#10. And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click.
The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out.
"You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door.
"Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.
Julia Quinn
#11. Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
Armistead Maupin
#12. Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned.
Karina Halle
#13. Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.
Kirk Cameron
#14. A beer doesn't have to be difficult to acquire, but damned if that doesn't make everything taste better.
Patrick Dawson
#15. That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
Margaret Mitchell
#16. Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
Andrew Jackson
#17. Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more. "I'd be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
Bertolt Brecht
#19. But how do you know?" "Because it's our book, Cassie. Yours and mine. This is our story, and I'll be damned if I let it end badly." I
Max Monroe
#20. It had its moments," I said. "I'll be damned if it didn't have its moments.
David Lozell Martin
#21. Every big problem has been thought about endlessly by people much smarter than we are. The fact that it remains a problem means it is too damned hard to be cracked in full.
Steven D. Levitt
#22. The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#23. Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
Marquis De Sade
#24. Of course she was worthy. She was Celaena Sardothien, gods be damned.
Sarah J. Maas
#25. I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those who exercise an influence against it, unto whom it is taught, man or woman will be damned, and they and all who will be influenced by them, will suffer the buffetings of Satan in the flesh.
Heber C. Kimball
#26. I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done.
Timothee Besset
#27. Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.
Germaine Greer
#28. Moral relativism be damned, Riz. There's them, and there's us, and we fight and die for us and that's it.'
Holly "Bang-Bang" Kirpachi
Charlie Flowers
#29. You give Europeans once again 'all benefits that they can eat', you make them work shorter hours, and you give more money, and they'd be back in a self-congratulatory, self-righteous mode; damned be the rest of the world.
Andre Vltchek
#30. Stannis had never learned to soften his speech, to dissemble or flatter; he said what he thought, and those that did not like it could be damned.
George R R Martin
#31. He couldn't change the fact of what he was, nor would he be able to shield Amelia from all the arrows that would be aimed at the wife of a gypsy. But he would be damned if he would let her make her way through a merciless world without him.
Lisa Kleypas
#32. You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!'
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved
Georgette Heyer
#33. Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
William Faulkner
#34. It is. If it's too late for me ... Well, I'll be damned - no pun intended - if I'll let them keep you out, too.
Stephenie Meyer
#35. I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A. Arthur
#36. The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, homeschool.
Jerry Falwell
#37. Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
D.H. Lawrence
#38. What is it, you fucking freak? If it was anything like that fork thing he put on me, I would most likely find a way to just kill myself. Salvation be damned
Yolanda Olson
#39. Took Amanda's hand. "Sisters," she repeated. "I walked away from you years ago. I'll be damned if I let you stand alone today.
Courtney Milan
#40. It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. "It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry" he would say. "I've been wet more than half my life and never been a whit the worse for it.
Halldor Laxness
#41. He decided quite suddenly, having kept fairly good record on the calendar, that tomorrow was Christmas Eve, and zombies be damned. The Christmas lights were going up.
Joe R. Lansdale
#42. I'm a chamaleon, ever-changing, always evolving, and eager for the next phase of metamorphosis. This is me, imperfections, inconsistencies, passion, and desires. I make myself happen, because if I didn't you can be damned sure nobody else would.
Sai Marie Johnson
#43. I'll be damned if I'm going to be the next Code Blue.
Bill Coon
#44. It had taken Oliver years to learn his lesson: keep quiet and let men like Bradenton test the fences. It wouldn't do them any good, and if you were careful, one day you'd be in a position to buy their whole damned farm.
Courtney Milan
#45. There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
Maxim Gorky
#46. It is well, says a soothing whisper in my ear like the wind. My heart is beating too fast. I remember what I'd said that day at the Grand Canyon. We can talk peace when You get rid of the demons. Well, I'll be damned. I think I've just been humbled.
Wendy Higgins
#47. Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death.
G.K. Chesterton
#48. Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.
Anne Rice
#49. Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?
William Faulkner
#50. Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
Joseph P. Kennedy
#51. It's not difficult to be encyclopedic in a work of fiction; it's damned difficult to be encyclopedic, I suppose, in truth.
John Barth
#52. Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,
thou art honest.
William Shakespeare
#53. There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply.
"That there's no lesson to be learned from life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
Jeffrey Archer
#55. Don't be ridiculous! Mystic arts be damned, a dog with machine guns is always problematic.
Jonathan Hickman
#56. I never wanted to be a god, he thought. I wanted only to disappear like a jewel of trace dew caught by the morning. I wanted to escape the angels and the damned - alone ... as though by an oversight.
Anonymous
#57. What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
John Wolcot
#58. Alex pushed open the door to Sewell Hall and rushed inside, breathing heavily and wishing she hadn't worn her corset stays quite so tight this morning. "Vanity be damned," she huffed to herself. "Loveliness will do me no good with Blackmoor if I drop dead from lack of air before he sees me.
Sarah MacLean
#60. Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.
Joyce Carol Oates
#61. A real man would have fought to be with the woman he loved - social class be damned.
Kelly Oram
#63. He'd actually hit me! It didn't matter that hitting me wasn't really like hitting a regular girl and I'd be completely healed in a matter of hours. I was still a freaking girl, and he damned well knew it. I'd just have to hit him back. With a lead pipe. Or an eighteen-wheeler.
Darynda Jones
#64. Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#65. He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. "I'll be damned."
"Possibly. But not today, I think.
G.S. Jennsen
#66. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
J.M. Coetzee
#67. You're spunky. I like it." He took a sip of his beer.
"You're creepy. I don't like it.
Chanelle Gray
#68. If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
Darren Shan
#69. In every religion the priest insists on five things -
First: There is a God.
Second: He has made known his will.
Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#70. The damned could be saved, he said, anytime. But they refused to give up their sins. Though they suffered endlessly, they would not give them up, even for salvation, perfect divine love.
Janet Fitch
#71. As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
William Faulkner
#72. What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you're grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don't, well then, you don't. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.
Julia Glass
#73. Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#74. If I'm to be damned, I'll be damned as a lion, not as a lamb.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#75. Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.
Walt Whitman
#76. I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.
Ann Nocenti
#77. We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'
Susana Martinez
#78. For what secrets, what truths had those monstrous creatures of night to give us? What, of necessity, must be their terrible limits, if indeed we were to find them at all? What can the damned really say to the damned?
Anne Rice
#79. Let's go to Pinkberry and we can break up over dessert.
I hate ice cream. I hate yogurt. I especially hate yogurt pretending to be ice cream. But I'll be damned if I don't grab my laptop and my keys and follow her wherever the hell she's willing to lead me.
Colleen Hoover
#80. And I'd be damned if I let the first photograph of me in ten years be taken on fucking Amtrak. I mean, the light alone.
Elizabeth Little
#81. He may be incensed, said Dizzy. I've never doubted the old parson's faith, but it has no place in politics. Good God, just imagine if each man allowed himself to be swayed by moral compunctions; we'd never get a damned thing accomplished in Parliament.
Carol K. Carr
#82. All would be well. All would be heavenly
If the damned would only stay damned.
Charles Fort
#83. Levi: "Somebody please shut up these god-damned brats."
Hanji: "Good thing those wide-eyed kids don't know what a cleanliness freak you are ... they'd be in for a rude awakening.
Hajime Isayama
#84. They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.
Anthony Liccione
#85. If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be damned for something paltry.
Gary Jennings
#86. Shall be verra pleased when he's taken his damned cheroots
Diana Gabaldon
#87. Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.
Patricia Briggs
#89. If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.'
'But I don't want to argue. I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#90. The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
Thomas Aquinas
#91. Life is so damned hard, so damned hard ... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#92. She was a Seeker now, marked for life.
She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.
Arwen Elys Dayton
#93. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
Joseph Campbell
#94. If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.
Agatha Christie
#95. There was no denying the reality of this situation. The exquisite ecstasy of having an honest-to-God, flesh-and-blood c#ck inside. Dream symbolisms and explanations be damned. This was bliss.
Jess Dee
#96. Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that.
Bill Maher
#97. Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
George Bernard Shaw
#98. In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
J. Paul Getty
#99. He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#100. I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!
Stjepan Sejic
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