Badness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.
-- Edward VII -
Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
-- James M. Barrie -
If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.
-- John Mulaney -
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
-- Lionel Trilling -
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
-- Nick Hornby -
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
-- Plautus -
Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
-- Charles A. Dana -
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.
-- Peter Abrahams