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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• Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Crowns, Pieces

  In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13

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• Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.

  Nora Roberts

  Romance, Heaven, Sake

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• God damn it, you've got to be kind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Compassion, Be Kind, God Bless You

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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, Damn You, Historical

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• It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

  Eileen Atkins

  Hands, People, Mind

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• Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

  Joe Teti

  Mother, Home, Giving

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• I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Sound, Rattlesnakes

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• There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.

  Robin Olds

  Senior, Eye, Mean

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• The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Iran, Years

  Interview with Robert Trivers, seedmagazine.com. September 06, 2006.

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• But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

  Roberto Bolano

  Running, Art, Lying

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

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  The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.

  Corey Taylor

  Like You, Feels, Damn Things

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• I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Giving, Don't Give A Damn, I Don't Give A Damn

  Arthur Rimbaud (1976). “A Season in Hell”, Pomegranate Press (MA)

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