"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
— Alice Walker

""At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

(quote at the end of the movie, when they're driving away from their burned down house)"
— Lemony Snicket

"Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
— Erica Jong

"Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day."
— Robert Jordan (The Dragon Reborn)

"I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did."
— Jean Ferris (Twice Upon a Marigold)

""Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
"They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us." "
— Sherwood Smith (Crown Duel)

"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!"
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

""Well then" Faye said. "Now that you've heard our story, we have just one question to ask you." She fixed Cassie with an odd half smile ans said in a sweet, false voice, "Are you planning to be a good witch or a bad witch?""
— L.J. Smith (The Initiation)

"It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

"Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.

"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail."
— Beatrix Potter

"You know your having a bad day when even your tofu and spinach pita sandwich doesn't make you happy. "
— Donald Haney

"Each day is full of choices. It's full of decisions and actions, complications and simplicities. It is our fault if we make a bad choice, a bad decision, a bad action, revel in a complication, take for granted all the simplicities.
Someday we will understand why. But, for now, we must simply live, and pray that it all works out for us."
— Alysha Speer

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
— Oscar Wilde

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Have I said anything I started out to say about being good? God, I don’t know. A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff."
— Ray Bradbury

""Gosh dangit!""
— Fred

"A few days ago I heard a performance of the Sibelius fifth symphony. As the closing bars approached, I experienced exactly the large, swelling emotion that the music was written to elicit. What would it have been like, I wondered, to be a Finn in the audience at the first performance of the symphony in Helsinki nearly a century ago, and feel that swell overtake one? The answer: one would have felt proud, proud that one of us could put together such sounds, proud that out of nothing we human beings can make such stuff. Contrast with that one´s feelings of shame that we, our people, have made Guantanamo. Musical creation on the one hand, a machine for inflicting pain and humiliation on the other: the best and the worst that human beings are capable of."
— J.M. Coetzee

""This fellow Charles Lindberg will never make it. He's doomed.""
— Harry Guggenheim

"It was the hotel room that first set me in a bad mood."
— Alysha Speer (Sharden)

"From two thorns, a rose will be born."
— myself

" That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere."
— Katie Alender (Bad Girls Don't Die)

"Why is it like that when something good happens, something else have to go wrong? I think I know, according to Isaac Newton's 3rd Law."
— Shehroze Khan Lodhi

""I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble... and I'm too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven't even booked Tommy the Face in two years. I'm turning into a jack-off idiot.""
— Edward Bunker (The Animal Factory)

"A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope line between beinga good girl and a slut. But there was always a moment when the lines blurred and a good girl had to decide whether to toe the line, cross the line, or stay safe behind the line that guarded her virtue."
— Thea Devine

"A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope line between being a good girl and a slut. But there was always a moment when the lines blurred and a good girl had to decide whether to toe the line, cross the line, or stay safe behind the line that guarded her virtue.
"
— Thea Devine

"This was such bad writing that it was good.

"
— William Saroyan

"Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer; Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer. What hast thou done to society, let me think? I answer thou hast caused the most of ills, thou demon Drink."
— William McGonagall