the worst Quotes

“You and I are just kids. We’ve got the best and the worst of it in front of us”

“Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.”

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.”

“The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.”

“…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.”

“O, would to God that the inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow Were red-hot steel to sear me to the brains!”

“When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits him- or herself to you wholly, it is a consummate experience. To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”

“The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,” she said, “would be to not be used for anything by anybody.”

“Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what’s been said to me.”

“What we have here is a bad case of stripes. One of the worst I’ve ever seen!”

″ And don’t ask me to solve it because I am the worst. ”

This book written in rhyme is hilarious, witty and just plain entertaining. Honor Brown with her wild, vivid imagination paints the worst scenario of going to school ever. She insists that the water tray is full of killer sharks, food poisoning is on the horizon, beatings are the norm and even her friends are monstrous. Such a drama queen extraodinaire!

“As in life, so in a game of hazard, skill will make something of the worst of throws.”

“The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzed through the air. They were the worst-behaved class in the whole school.”

“The best you do does not counterbalance the worst.”

“I’m moving. It is the worst thing ever.”

″‘I’m Head of Dorm for next term.’ Kingshaw went cold. He knew that it was sure to be true, and that it would be the worst of all things that were coming. Hooper had power now, here. He would have power there, too, then.”

“Fear is terrible, but the combination of hope and fear is worse.”

″‘It’s the worst hole I’ve ever been in,’ he wrote, in imagination. ‘I’d do anything to get out of it, Peter- to be somewhere else- anywhere.‘”

“I feel so inadequate trying to reconstruct a reality that was worse than my darkest dreams.”

“Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”

“But when they come, the worst the soldiers do is get drunk and fire their guns. It’s a tense time, and Christel’s active curiosity leads her into all sorts of dangerous places.”

“The worst part, the absolute worst part, is the constant slipping of your tongue into the new empty space, where you know a tooth supposed to be but a’int no more.”

“You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love best in the world.”

“The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.”