Damn You Quotes

• 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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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

  Elton John

  Sadness, Tears, Damn

  Song: Sacrifice Elton John Bernie Taupin

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• Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

  Christopher Titus

  Tests, United States, Bumps

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

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• Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

  Andy Weir

  Home, Brilliant, Entropy

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• I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

  B. F. Skinner

  Selfish, Ideas, Desire

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• Open up your plans and damn you're free!

  Jason Mraz

  Life, Freedom, Plans

  Song: I'm Yours, 2008

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• Damn you!" Dagenham raged, "Don't you realize that you can't trust people? They don't know enough for their own good." "Then let them learn or die. We're all in this together. Let's live or die together.

  Alfred Bester

  People, Together, Realizing

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

  Jack White

  Faces, Your Face, Loud

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.

  Ian Kershaw

  Men, Historical, Generations

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• Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?"

  Miles Davis

  Rain, People, Giving

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• It was a play of opportunity. It's certainly something that he can do. He has the wherewithal to do that. It's a concern when we are backed into our own endzone. The reality is I want him to take that advantage. It's like leaving a net untended and you're supposed to pass, but damn you got to take a shot. Certainly represented what we wanted to happen.

  Les Miles

  Opportunity, Reality, Play

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• The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Artist, People, Giving

  "Jermaine Dupri wants it all ... and now". www.today.com. July 21, 2005.

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• Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

  Adam Levine

  Charming, Damn

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• Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny."

  Ice Cube

  Comedian, Cameras, Balls

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall.

  Rod Serling

  Dwarves, Views, Giving

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• See, because I played behind the scenes so much I already knew what to expect. So I started getting myself ready. I was creating work for myself to do. People were telling me to take a rest and saying "damn, you already acting like you going on MTV or something." In my mind I was because I knew it was what I'd have to do in the near future.

  Yung Joc

  Mtv, Creating, People

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• Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' "They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'

  Wanda Sykes

  Roots, People, Giving

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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, Laughing, Wicked

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

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• The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

  Voltaire

  Believe, Men, Superstitions

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• The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!

  Ashley Montagu

  Heart, Fate, Enemy

  Ashley Montagu (2001). “The Anatomy of Swearing”, p.35, University of Pennsylvania Press

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