bad Quotes

“She was a bad, ambitious woman, and so as her husband and herself could arrive at greatness, she cared not much by what means.”

“They’ll look after you—they promised they would. And I need the money, Joey; I need the money bad.”

“People are rotten everywhere you go. They’re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”

“Good doesn’t always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result form bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions. Scary idea!”

“But the wasps were just as bad as ever.”

“I can’t stand fairy tales. They’re all the same. If you’re very good and very beautiful with long golden curls, then, after you’ve swept up a few cinders or had a long nap in a cobwebby palace, this prince comes along and you live happily ever after. Which is fine if you happen to be a goody-goody and look gorgeous. But if you’re bad and ugly then you’ve got no chance whatsoever.”

“Things went bad for a while. The accounting practice he’d had been with for years folded suddenly. Then Dad joined with a friend, Alec Cowan, to start their own consultancy.”

“American impudence! I’ve heard of it before. They call it precocity and freedom. Beastly, impudent bad manners; that’s what it is!”

“Then she would order me to say over and over again, ‘I’m a bad boy! I’m a bad boy! I’m a bad boy!‘”

“Alas! Oh, Chanticleer, alas! I have done you a bad turn. I frightened you when I grabbed you and took you out of the yard. But, Sir, I did it without evil intention.”

“If someone were to tell a friend, ‘I want to see you tonight’, you would wonder what was meant by ‘you’. You would keep asking yourself, ‘Does “you” in this case mean “you” or “U”?’ If ‘you’ means ‘U’ and ‘U’ is me, then that lady wants to see me tonight. And then you would wonder why, I tell you, Professor Sherman, ‘U’ is a bad name.”

″‘Very often,’ said Dorinda, ‘when we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It’s difficult to tell which is which.‘”

“When you are doing something badly and no one’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones still telling you they love you and care.”

“Humans are fundamentally good, they say. And that may well be true. But you can’t make it too easy on them, those good humans. Otherwise they might go bad all of a sudden.”

“You’re so nice. You’re not good, you’re not bad, You’re just nice. I’m not good, I’m not nice, I’m just right. I’m the witch. You’re the world.”

“Oh, if life were made of moments, Even now and then a bad one—! But if life were only moments, Then you’d never know you had one.”

“I’ve been bad—worse than you could know—but I’m not all bad. Look at me, Mr. Spade. You know I’m not all bad, don’t you? You can see that, can’t you? Then can’t you trust me just a little?”

“it is better to make something happen—good or bad—than to have it happen to you.”

“I have been hurt so bad and I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.”

“these “sometimey” feelings are welcomed to stay... reminiscent of ying and yang: they need eachother to help me get through the good & bad days”

“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters.”