Bad Company Quotes

• To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

  Michael Bassey

  Quality, Negative Influence, Excuse

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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• Bad company ruins good morals.

  Paul the Apostle

  Ruins, Morality, Good Moral

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• Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.

  Leonard of Port Maurice

  Games, Soul, Sloth

  St. Leonard of Port Maurice (1970). “The Hidden Treasure: Holy Mass”, p.106, TAN Books

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• There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Games, World

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• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  Saint Augustine

  Blow, Nails, Done

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• If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Children, People, Parent

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• An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

  Samuel Richardson

  Heart, Temptation, Honest

  Samuel Richardson (1856). “Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative”, p.94

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• Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Lying, Arms

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• Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Flower, Men

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.162, Oxford University Press

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Good And Bad, Stock Price

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• To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

  Umar

  Friendship, True Friend, Islamic

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• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  Andy Grove

  Good Company, Crisis, Great Company

  Said in December 1994. "Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intel". Book by Albert Yu, p. 93, 1998.

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• What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an agonizing death. We willingly starve and suffocate our hearts by turning away form the remembrance of God. And then we poison our hearts through the bad company we keep, the garbage that goes into our eyes and ears, and emanates from our tongue...
  And then we wonder why our heart feels dead.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Eye, Heart, Company We Keep

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• Sad company is bad company.

  Milan Kundera

  Company

  "The Farewell Waltz". Book by Milan Kundera, 1972.

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• You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self Confidence, Expression, People

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• Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

  Guy Finley

  Talking, Differences, Good And Bad

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 17, 2017

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• A man by himself is in bad company.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Solitude, Company

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

  Plato

  Character, Mean, Men

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• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

  Ryan Holiday

  Weakness, Way, Individual

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.10, Penguin

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• So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Friendly, Next, Excuse

  Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

  Denis Diderot

  Loss, Religion, Prejudice

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

  Horace Walpole

  Has Beens, Obliged, Ifs

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.4814, Delphi Classics

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