Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

— Mark Twain

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean…

— Alice Dreger

Take what's yours and be damned.

— Genesis

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.

— Molly Ivins

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

— John Wolcot

“With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going…

— Anthony Liccione

“Jonathan Edwards, the dear old soul, who, if his doctrine is true, is now in heaven rubbing his holy hands with glee, as he…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dead star shine Light up the sky I'm all out of breath My walls are closing in Days go by Give me a sign…

— ProudLesbian

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

— Mark Twain

Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't

— Nancy Cartwright

Let them impeach and be damned.

— Andrew Johnson

People are no damned good.

— William Steig

“The future be damned. Because right here, right now, I almost lost you. I won’t waste another moment.”

— Renea Mason

Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles…

— Francis Douce