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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.

  Ray Combs

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Book, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Games, Play

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• Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

  Richard Jenkins

  Meaningful, Waste, Life Is

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• Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.

  Virginia McKenna

  Teacher, Elephants, Ivory

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• I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.

  Lesley Gore

  Gay, Two, Differences

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• Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Heart, Justice

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.17, Penguin

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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

  Mordecai Richler

  Umpires, Giving, Canada

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• Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

  Holly Near

  Thinking, Umpires, Giving

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• I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

  George Voinovich

  Jobs, Umpires, Giving

  "Bush's 'perfect storm'" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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• I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

  Doug Ose

  Stupid, Smart, Mean

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• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Umpires, Viruses

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• I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

  Paul Simon

  Father, Umpires, House

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• People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

  Jimmy Connors

  War, Umpires, People

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• Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Rights, America, Long

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• Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

  D. A. Carson

  Brother, Swings, Idols

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• It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.

  Don Hewitt

  Real, Moving, Hero

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• If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Song, Kissing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.274, Scholastic Inc.

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