Bloody Quotes

• I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sports, Football, Believe

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Laughing, Apparitions

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79

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• I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

  Julie Walters

  Daughter, Mother, Hell

  "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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• The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

  Charlie Watts

  People, World, Crap

  "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.

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• A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Owl, Serious

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2301, Simon and Schuster

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• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

  Wendy Cope

  Christmas, Men, Earth

  Wendy Cope (2017). “Christmas Poems”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Challenges, Alex

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

  William Ernest Henley

  Unconquerable Will, Chance, One Tree Hill Love

  'Invictus. In Memoriam R.T.H.B.' (1888)

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• To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Peace, Giving

  "Fragment of a Speech" ca. 18 May 1858.

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• We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

  William Glasser

  Wall, May, Stones

  William Glasser, MD (2013). “Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology”, p.122, iUniverse

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• I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Funny, Football

  " Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

  Michael Caine

  Writing, Actors, Comedy

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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• But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Home, House, Citizens

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• Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

  Graham Coxon

  Letting Go, Singing, Stuff

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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  Hans Kung

  Xenophobia, Hate, Moving

  Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

  Doris Lessing

  Winning, Europe, Whole

  "Doris Lessing wins Nobel prize" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2007.

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• There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Criticism, Trying

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• And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

  Angela Carter

  Beautiful, Hair, Water

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing 'True Blood' parties.

  Stephen Moyer

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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• I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

  Brian Eno

  Awful, Multi Tasking

  "Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial". Interview with Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

  Bode Miller

  Years, Goggles, Noses

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• One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.

  Freddie Mercury

  Night, Might, Roger

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• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Country, People, Population

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

  Reginald Maudling

  Country, Scotch, Awful

  Said on the aeroplane after visiting Northern Ireland for the first time,

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• Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Nature, Confusion, Humanity

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.111, Grove Press

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