Well Deserved Quotes

#1. I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Douglas Adams

#2. You should never let a silly detail such as not getting attacked with a cake fork stand in the way of a little well-deserved sexy time.

Rosen Trevithick

#3. I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

John Malkovich

#4. People in Africa have a well-deserved reputation for being happy. This may explain why: there is no word in Swahili for "sarcasm" therefore Africans have no concept of saying something and having it mean a playfully snide version of the opposite.

Will Bowen

#5. Villainy was not simply the red raging glory of inflicting well-deserved pain; it was also the curdling knowledge of having inflicted injustice. A villain simply did not care. Only the victims did.

Meredith Duran

#6. I run through the woods, at once applauding myself for my wit-"
"Well deserved, sir. Well deserved."
"And at the self instant, I am grinding my teeth because I am a vain, revenging idiot and shall be run down because of it.

M T Anderson

#7. Rich people don't work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives

Sunday Adelaja

#8. For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

Michael Hayden

#9. Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved.

Louis-Joseph Papineau

#10. It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved.

Jennifer Lawrence

#11. It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

David Douglass

#12. A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.

James Dobson

#13. Congratulations on your well deserved retirement,
Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead.
No lying about your age, more lying around the house
After lying much longer in bed

John Walter Bratton

#14. It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.

Charles Dickens

#15. I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

Eric Alterman

#17. Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss.

Jay Kristoff

#18. Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

Ann Landers

#19. Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

William Feather

#20. On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction ... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

John Calvin

#21. When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

Albert Mohler

#22. This time you're looking for revenge." Yes. He wanted revenge. He felt his jaw tighten, his vision focus in. "For Eve." Ian's eyes narrowed. "Really? Are you sure about that?" He was sure, and he fucking well deserved revenge. Evans had torn them apart.

Lexi Blake

#23. The experiment, so far as its original projectors were concerned, proved, long ago, a failure; first lapsing into Fourierism, and dying, as it well deserved, for this infidelity to its own higher spirit. Where

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#24. To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.

Kenzaburo Oe

#25. Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Sara Sheridan

#26. We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb, But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.

Roy Moore

#27. Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

Henry Mayhew

#28. Despite the well-deserved criticism, controlling public opinion became a central element in all future war planning.

Oliver Stone

#29. I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

Rush Limbaugh

#30. He had you."
"Well, he deserved better.

Jordan Dane

#31. A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.

Siddharth Katragadda

#32. I think we deserved to get through and I congratulate the players. We said before the game that nothing was decided and that we had to play a good team which is very dangerous. We did well and we didn't give away many chances.

Frank Rijkaard

#33. To be honest, I don't think you deserved her, but I don't think any of us deserved her really. She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the fact of her not being here well it just isn't right

David Nicholls

#34. The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

Richard Whately

#35. A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

Mitch Gaylord

#36. Well, it's basically the viewers who determine it. We - well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they've chosen a winner, I believe.

Simon Cowell

#37. It is a beautiful offering to Me when you lay down your judgement and choose compassion. When you love others the way I love you, when you hold back the consequences they could have deserved, and when you treat them the way you'd like to be treated, the you shall receive mercy as well.

Angela Thomas

#38. It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.

John Ruskin

#39. Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will.

Edmund Spenser

#40. Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#41. To Bettina, she'd written: The old Vrekener king was a vicious fiend who got what he deserved. Kudos to your new vamp husband for a well-played assassination and tournament victory.

Kresley Cole

#42. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#43. He gazed at Reef in almost unconcealed envy, failing completely to recognize the darker thing, the desire, the desperate need to create a radius of annihilation that, if it could not include the ones who deserved it, might as well include himself. Webb

Thomas Pynchon

#44. She deserved a man who could take care of her. But fuck if I was just going to leave her. I couldn't do that. I may not be good enough for her but I was gonna damn well try my hardest to become worthy.

Abbi Glines

#45. Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

William Hazlitt

#46. I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

Samuel Richardson

#47. Tab's mom said that when people reached out to hurt your feelings, it was because they secretly felt they deserved to be talked to that way. She said that they had 'long, hard roads ahead' and that you should just wish them well.

Rebecca Stead

#48. I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.

Robert H. Schuller

#49. There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

John Brown