Damn Quotes

• Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
  Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
  Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
  Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,
  Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,
  That I will speak to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Air, Heaven

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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• I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Beer, Men

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• Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Golf, Play

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• When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

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• Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

  Chesty Puller

  Marine, Differences, Long

  Speech by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, archive.defense.gov. August 10, 2012.

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

  Esai Morales

  Character, Two, Minorities

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Average, Long, Giving

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• The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Self, Faces, Life Is

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• To praise one thing is not to damn another.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Praise, One Thing

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

  Thomas Watson

  Men, Damn You, Laughing

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Great Gain of Godliness”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Faults, Damn Things, Ifs

  Ernest Hemingway (1963). “Green Hills of Africa”, Scribner

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• Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

  Tennessee Williams

  People, Hard

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.87, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

  Paula Abdul

  Strong, Men, Dancer

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• I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I, on the other hand, spent eight months with my face squashed up against someone else’s backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes.

  Damian Lewis

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Interesting, Privacy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!

  Arsenio Hall

  Girl, Boys, Umpires

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• You just have to say, 'It’s pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I’m OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'

  Melissa McCarthy

  Thinking, Moments, Damn Good

  "Melissa McCarthy: ‘I don’t know why I am not thinner’", www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

  Lucille Ball

  Teenager, Thinking, Others Opinions

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• I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.

  Lucille Ball

  Years, Hollywood, Shy

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• Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Sleep, Thinking

  YouTube Channel "RodiAgnusDei"/"Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams", www.youtube.com. February 05, 2013.

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• Damn it all, you have been given a life on this beautiful planet! Get off your ass and do something!

  Nick Offerman

  Beautiful, Ass, Given

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.40, Penguin

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• Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

  Joan Crawford

  Flower, Alive, Bits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

  Leighton Meester

  Thinking, Trying, Shame

  "The Many Faces of Leighton Meester". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 5, 2009.

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• I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.'

  Gregory Peck

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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