A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
Rebecca West

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O'Rourke

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.
Claudette Colbert

Blake is damned good to steal from.
Henry Fuseli

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
Joseph P. Kennedy

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Georg Trakl

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
Richard Pryor

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
Jimmy Connors

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
James Lovelock

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
Lewis Mumford

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
Sargent Shriver

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
Boss Tweed

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.
Michael Landon

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
Marilyn French

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron