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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• Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

  Frank Herbert

  Revenge, Justice, Pendulums

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.1, Macmillan

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• They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

  Kenneth Grange

  Choices, Design, Matter

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• The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Son

  Carl von Clausewitz (2006). “Selections from On war”

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• People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by profound revolutions and bloody struggles; they have learned that the question is not that of a fraternal union of all European peoples under a single republican flag, but of an alliance of the revolutionary peoples against the counter-revolutionary peoples, an alliance which comes into being not on paper, but only on the battlefield.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Communication, People

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”, Intl Pub

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• Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

  Peter Hook

  Would Be, Boring, Ifs

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• We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Communication, People

  "Lessons of the Moscow Uprising". Proletary, No. 2, August 29, 1906. Collected Works, Volume 11, pp. 174, www.marxists.org.

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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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• Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Noses, Wipe

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Work, Passion, Interesting

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• People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, People, Miserable

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• Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

  Wendy Cope

  Men, Years, Two

  "Bloody Men" l. 1 (1992)

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• All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

  Katie Price

  Sick, Gentleman, Want

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• I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

  Amanda Peet

  Couple, Airplane, Thinking

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• Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

  Georges Sorel

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

  David Lynch

  Running, Wall, Struggle

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

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• Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Snow, Footprint, Victim

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

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• Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

  Margaret Walker

  Peace, Sky, Issues

  Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.170, University of Georgia Press

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• Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Government, Liberty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• Football, bloody hell!

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Hell

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• The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

  Blaise Pascal

  Play, Forever, Earth

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• There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Lying, Champagne, Servant

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• When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

  Red Buttons

  People, Way, Necks

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• It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

  Bela Lugosi

  Race, Blood, Agony

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• Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

  William Robertson Smith

  Strong, Ideas, Imagination

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