Top 100 Be Damned Quotes
#1. I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.
Larry Brown
#2. For each man that shall be damned shall be damned by his own guilt, and each man that is saved shall be saved by his own merit. Unperceived, here was the start of the modern world.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#3. Loving someone means putting their needs above your own. No matter what. Somehow, you figured that out. I'll be damned if I know how, but you did.
Amy Harmon
#4. The Universalists believe
that God is too good to damn [humanity],
while the Unitarians believe
that [humanity] is too good to be damned by God.
Thomas Starr King
#5. Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times ...
Marisha Pessl
#6. Love brought me that far by the hand, without The slightest doubt or irony, dry-eyed And knowledgeable, contrary as be damned; Then just kept standing there, not letting go.
Seamus Heaney
#7. Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#8. Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#9. God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
Mario Puzo
#10. Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
Yann Martel
#11. In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his "salvation" by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely "subservient to God" (Romans 6:22).
Alain De Benoist
#12. I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags.
Ray Bradbury
#13. There are only three kinds of kisses in this world: secret ones that nobody sees, the fake ones that everybody sees, and the real ones that only two people see. This one was one of those and I'll be damned, but it rocked my friggin' world.
C.M. Stunich
#14. The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.
John Dryden
#16. For in our own day we see many who are stupid enough to be so overcome by the mere title of "the church," that they take sides with the pope, and would be damned forever rather than raise a finger against his authority.
John Calvin
#17. I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
William Howard Taft
#18. God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#20. Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. - Eleanor Roosevelt STEPPING
Aleatha Romig
#21. I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!
Tennessee Williams
#22. Because I would rather be damned for something I do, rather than something I can do but don't otherwise bother to try. Ia
Jean Johnson
#23. For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.
Cassandra Clare
#24. I remember thinkin theworld still felt as if it was made of glass, and I had to be damned careful not to slip on it n cut myself when I had to let go ...
Stephen King
#25. It made him hope that the soul existed, so it could be damned.
Yves Fey
#26. So you'd keep me here against my will-"
"Know this pirate," he said, his hands gripping the railing, "you are my passenger, and I will be damned before I let any harm come to you.
Alexandra Bracken
#27. Caleb and Aaron - now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned.
John Steinbeck
#28. I have a plan. My plan is to not marry her. Diplomacy be damned. There. End of discussion.
Marissa Meyer
#29. Her hand drifted over his left nipple, and one of her fingers moved, sending lightning straight down to his groin. She was killing him, but he'd be damned if he moved one tiny inch. And if he was really, really lucky, she'd do it again.
Kathy Lyons
#30. mama taught me waste not want not. i try not to waste but i'll be damned if i don't want.
Amy Leigh Cutler
#31. Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.
Saint Remigius
#32. I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me.
Susan Dennard
#33. In spite of my wisecracking, pain-in-the-ass ways, I was the clip that held things together. Unnoticed. Taken for granted. Okay, maybe I'm giving myself too much credit here, but I'd be damned if I was gonna keep on being the family paper clip.
Neal Shusterman
#34. There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.
Louis Armstrong
#35. Girls are funny. If they fall for you, they do what they want - their mothers be damned.
Michael Schmicker
#36. I'll be damned," he muttered."Most likely." She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. "And I may be joining you, after what we just did.
Tessa Dare
#37. I'm sure her vagina isn't sticking out." I look at Poppy. "Jesus, it's not sticking out is it?"
"Go say something encouraging to that girl, Warren."
I pull Lilla's arm along, because I'll be damned, if there's a hideous vagina sticking out I'm not foregoing this shit alone.
Pella Grace
#38. Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso
#39. The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.
William Howard Taft
#40. Diplomacy be damned, Nate preferred to say what was on his mind. 'Yes, and Aladdin might fly out your ass on his magic carpet and take you for a spin too.
Teresa Schulz
#41. I have an idea that all sensible people
will ultimately be damned.
Nora May French
#43. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.
Jacob Bronowski
#45. The man who publishes a book without an index ought to be damned 10 miles beyond hell, where the Devil himself cannot get for stinging nettles.
John Baynes
#46. I've fallen in love with this woman, in spite of her smart mouth and wicked temper, or maybe because of them. Ellie Mason is the first woman I've ever loved, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let her slip through my fingers again.
Carmen Jenner
#47. We are the choice elected few
Let all the rest be damned
There is room enough in hell for you
We won't have heaven crammed!
Roland H. Bainton
#48. As my father always says, there's no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.
Christine Pope
#49. There was nothing common about him, first impressions be damned. Behind those spectacles lurked something feral and untamable. He hadn't moved from his chair, and yet she felt a little tickle in her palms. A catch in her breath. His eyes were too sharp, his expression far too even.
Courtney Milan
#50. I'll be damned. Miranda Sweet, is it you or is my glaucoma acting up again?" Ruby Sue sat her glass down on the Formica countertop with a clank. "You always did know how to make an entrance. Who do you think you are, the Queen of England?
Avery Flynn
#51. I'm scared of you, Cole Walker. I'm scared you'll hurt me or I'll hurt you ... yet I have no intention of turning back. I'm throwing myself off this cliff, consequences be damned.
Samantha Young
#52. I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#53. Jesus H. Christ!" I exclaimed. I felt it again, unbelieving, but there it was. "You always said your head was solid bone, and I'll be damned if you weren't right. She shot you point-blank, and the bloody ball bounced off your skull!" Jamie,
Diana Gabaldon
#54. But no matter how ferociously pitiable is the dried up graveyard, the sand and barrenness and the sluggish little stream have their own persistent individual damnation. The world is at least so constructed that its treasures may be damned each in a different manner and degree.
Mary MacLane
#55. Aren't you afraid you will be damned?'
'I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' said Delaura without alarm. 'I have always believed He attributes more importance to love than to faith.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#56. A helpful lecture about how anger 'hurts us more than anyone else' would have sent her screaming off into the woods, vampires be damned.
Caroline Hanson
#57. I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried...
Nancy Milford
#58. So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
Charles Caleb Colton
#59. That cowboy had heartbreak written all over him and she'd be damned if she knew why every time he blew into town she ended up naked before he ended up gone. Reed always ended up gone.
Cindy Gerard
#62. That's not her fault, though, I'm not even sure if it's my fault, because attraction is an ugly beast, and I'll be damned if I don't conquer it.
Colleen Hoover
#63. But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
Leonard Ravenhill
#64. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do
Ayn Rand
#65. Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it.
Seanan McGuire
#67. Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.
Patrick Murray
#68. I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.
Frank Miller
#69. Our religion, our party, our tribe, our town, our school, our race, our nation. Believe. Belong. Behave. Or Be damned.
Tom Robbins
#70. I'd be damned if I listened to the same money-grubbing whores who'd sell their ideals and principles for their fifteen minutes of fame; the ignorant buffoons that live in a one-dimensional 140-character world. Tweet tweet, roar roar, caw caw, more like baa baa.
Bruce Crown
#71. He was mine, and I'd be damned if I was going to let some other woman have him. I would shove the candlelight up her ass.
Abbi Glines
#72. This isn't the medieval era, my lord. I'll be damned if I need to put on a dog-and-pony show with a peer as part of a business deal."
"Speaking as the other half of the dog-and-pony show," Westcliff said sardonically, "I'm not fond of the idea either.
Lisa Kleypas
#73. Love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
Charles Bukowski
#74. So I guess this means Domme Isa will be retired for a while until he feels satiated. But I'll be damned if she'll be retired forever. I want to know the real Dylan because apparently I've only been fucking his representative.
Ella Dominguez
#76. Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.
Joseph Bottum
#77. Love be damned; I never wanted to feel that vulnerable and broken again.
Angela Graham
#78. He's hit it fat ... It will probably be short ... It just hit the front edge of the green ... It's got no chance ... It's rolling toward the cup ... Well I'll be damned!
Jimmy Demaret
#80. Make sure you love what you do and do what you love, the rest of the world be damned. Everything else is negotiable.
Kevis Hendrickson
#81. People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.
Ed Zern
#82. For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!
Norman Lock
#83. They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.
Lee Smith
#84. I'll be damned if I act like a mouse, you overgrown tomcat.
J.C. Daniels
#85. That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
Saint Patrick
#86. You can and you can't - You shall and you shan't - You will and you won't - And you will be damned if you do - And you will be damned if you don't.
Lorenzo Dow
#87. Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.
John F. Kennedy Jr.
#88. There is nothing-
No life,
No joy,
No pain-
There is nothing save opinion,
And opinion be damned.
Stephen Crane
#89. We must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.
Martin Luther
#90. I ain't sayin' I'm no better than anybody else, but I'll be damned if I ain't just as good!
Oscar Hammerstein II
#91. I'll be damned if I'm the weak link in a line of cognac drinkers.
Heather Lyons
#92. I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
George Gordon Byron
#93. I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
Omega Maverick
#94. I'd be damned if I let him see the tears in my eyes.
Jennifer Estep
#95. She hesitated for a moment longer, then tentatively placed her fingers in his. Her hand was hot and dry and so fragile-seeming that James cradled it gingerly. The next moment, she squeezed so hard his eyes widened.
Fragile lady be damned. He squeezed back spitefully. Vicious minx.
Y.S. Lee
#96. The Romulans may rip this base in half, pal. They may even kill me. But I'll be damned if they're going to keep me from enjoying a refreshing beverage.
Michael Jan Friedman
#97. I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.
William Faulkner
#98. I can't help the way they are, but I'll be damned before I become like them.
Lorraine Heath
#99. It was the most earnest ambition I ever had ... Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.
Mark Twain
#100. 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
