Red Badge Quotes

#1. Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

Man Ray

#2. At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

Stephen Crane

#3. {My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was go out and buy a red lipstick or a red dress. 'It will be your red badge of courage,' she said.

Maureen Dowd

#4. You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.

John Cornyn

#5. A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Mark Twain

#6. I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

Ruby Wax

#7. Nobody cared for her until the time she touched everyone like a breeze, but the day she turned into a storm and swept everything on her way out, the world stood still. She was a nightmare none had ever across.

Akshay Vasu

#8. One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Baruch Spinoza

#9. Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

William Sloane Coffin

#10. This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness, And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.

Edgar Lee Masters

#11. Did Errol ever know that his life would be just a dash on a gravestone? That everything he did and all the food he ate and the car trips he took and the kisses he gave would all end up as a line on a rock? In a park with a whole lot of strangers?

Brooke Davis

#12. Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

Mem Fox

#13. But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.

Richard Flanagan

#14. He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Stephen Crane

#15. All of us have our wires crossed and crisscrossed so many times it's impossible to untangle the mess. It really does seem like the entire human race might as well be conversing with hand gestures and grunts, for all the success we're having.

Jody Gehrman

#16. Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.

Steve Maraboli

#17. In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

Malcolm De Chazal

#18. Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

Sally Kellerman

#19. Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.

Stephen Crane