Quotes About Damned If You Do

#1. He would be damned if he fell prey to love's debilitating thrall.

Sophie Jordan

#2. A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Gene Fowler

#3. He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West

#4. Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind .

"Wile E. Coyote" I said to him soberly . "Suuuuuuper Genius

Jim Butcher

#5. The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

Thomas Stockman

#6. Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

Peter Straub

#7. Pure love was always difficult to witness. Why was that, she wondered? Because it was so rare? So beautiful? SO damned unattainable for most of the poor saps muddling through this life?

Lynda Sandoval

#8. 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

#9. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

Evans G. Valens

#10. Shut the damned door. you're lettin' the flies out.

Sumner Wilson

#11. Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
"That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly.
"Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.

Eoin Colfer

#12. 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

#13. Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

James Lovelock

#14. I'm sorry about ... .ever letting you go. I'm sorry for all the time we wasted. I'm sorry for being here with you right now when we can't do a damned thing about it.

T. Torrest

#15. The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

John Marshall

#16. 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

#17. Been there, Remiel. Done that. Wore the T-Shirt, ate the burger, bought the original cast album, choreographed the legions of the damned and orchestrated the screaming.

Neil Gaiman

#18. 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

#19. There's an imp inside me, and if I don't let him out to make some mischief now and then, the world just gets too damned dull. I hate feeling grumpy and bored. I'm an enthusiast, and the more dangerous my life becomes, the happier I am.

Paul Auster

#20. The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

Anne Rice

#21. 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

#22. Twice damned, in truth, and yet by quirk of timing and fate accepted into that society denied to so many others.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#23. We're all damned, man. You should know that by now.

Trish Marie Dawson

#24. Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

Andy Biersack

#25. 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

#26. Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Iris Dement

#27. 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

#28. Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.

Charles Bukowski

#29. 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

#30. Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe

Madelon Phillips

#31. Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

Armistead Maupin

#32. The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

Adam Rifkin

#33. Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned.

Karina Halle

#34. 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

#35. A beer doesn't have to be difficult to acquire, but damned if that doesn't make everything taste better.

Patrick Dawson

#36. That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Margaret Mitchell

#37. And yet Jane still couldn't help feeling sorry for the anticyclonic. That mutant left-handed runt of the liter... the poor damned giant evil beautiful thing...

Bruce Sterling

#38. He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.

Miles Watson

#39. 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

#40. No matter where I look, my walls are crumbling, and this damned girl keeps presenting me with the most dangerous element of all.
Hope.

Lauren Layne

#41. Rowan was the most powerful full-blooded Fae male alive. And his scent was all over her. Yet she had no gods-damned idea.

Sarah J. Maas

#42. You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#43. One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.

Martin Luther

#44. I said, "Don't you have other things to deal with?"
"Of course I do," he said, shrugging. "I have so many things to deal with that I'm sometimes tempted to unleash my power across the world and wipe the board clean. Just to buy me some damned peace.

Sarah J. Maas

#45. 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

#46. This game is a hell we've all been damned into. It's designed to madden us. The most intelligent Arcana ever to play is called the Fool. The one who least wanted to kill was named Death. And you, Empress, rule over nothing!

Kresley Cole

#47. it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built "The Breakers" he damned himself.

Joan Didion

#48. Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren't we going to run out of gas?'
No there's plenty of god-damned gas.'
Where are we going?'
I'm going to get some god-damed oranges!

Charles Bukowski

#49. Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

Bertolt Brecht

#50. 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

#51. Love is a damned frightening thing.

Jaci Burton

#52. A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

William Godwin

#53. My choices were either too much alcohol or a whirl with my vibrator, and I was damned if I'd have a battery-provided orgasm starring Dark and Dangerous.

Sylvia Day

#54. Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#55. Why are you still so damned protective of me?:
"You have to ask?"
"I do."
Mick came closer still, until his face hung an inch from mine. "If you have to ask, then you wouldn't believe my answer." He drew away and continued wiping my hands.

Allyson James

#56. Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned . . . .

E. M. Forster

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Why are we doing this?" Caine asked him. "You know damned well why we're doing this. Because it's a fight. It may be THE fight. I may be the final fight. And what else are we good at, you and me? What are we going to do if we ever get out there anyway?

Michael Grant

#61. Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else.
She made talent sound like a damned insult.

Esi Edugyan

#62. That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

Lewis Black

#63. Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

Brigham Young

#64. I wouldn't do this if i didn't care, but you mean everything to me, and if this is what you need, then this is what you'll get. But we're damned well going to work on changing this association between caring and spanking.

Cherise Sinclair

#65. You wouldn't be twisting yourself into knots like this, Harry, if you didn't care."
"So?"
"Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.

Jim Butcher

#66. Maybe I'm damned if I do, but with every other beat I got left in my heart, you know I'd rather be damned with you.

Meat Loaf

#67. 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

#68. She moans about everything anyway. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't with a bitch like her.

Alex Scarrow

#69. Girls are funny. If they fall for you, they do what they want - their mothers be damned.

Michael Schmicker

#70. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#71. Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
Mort thought for a moment.
"No," he said eventually, "what?"
There was silence.
Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

Terry Pratchett

#72. 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

#73. Welcome to Hell where you're screwed if you do and damned if don't. And just so you know, Lucifer has a special spot reserved for you ...

Eve Langlais

#74. His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#75. But I think it has to do with what you believe about yourself. If you believe you're damned, then you are. But if you don't ...

Cassandra Clare

#76. Now the son of a bitch was saying it was a fluke. Cloud nine to complete shit in ten seconds. The guy wasn't just an emotional roller coaster; he was a whole damned amusement park.

S.W. Vaughn