Famous quotes containing the word bad:
“Oh, yes, Id do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. Its too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.”
—Flannery OConnor (19251964)
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poets bombast!”
—Jean De La Bruyère (16451696)