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The Beautiful and the Damned.

- F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
   Title of novel.

'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 those damned dishes.

- Marilyn French
  The Women's Room, bk.1, ch.21.

   Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?

-William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester
  Attributed, when presented with the second volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. These words have also been attributed to George III and the Duke of Cumberland.

It's a damned long, dark, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  She Stoops to Conquer, act1, sc.2.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to eternity, God ha'mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Gentlemen-Rankers'.

   If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o'mine,O mother o'mine.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
The Light That Failed, dedication.

   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!Who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.2.

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!

- Alexander Pope
  An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.281^4.

'Damn you!' 'You need not. I feel among the damned already.'

- George Bernard Shaw
  Sir George Crofts andVivieWarren. MrsWarren's Profession, act 3.

Hell isfull of musical amateurs: music isthebrandyofthe damned.

- George Bernard Shaw
  DonJuan to the Devil. Man and Superman, act 3.

It has been a damned serious businessBlucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thingthe nearest run thing you ever saw in your life† By God! Idon'tthink it would have doneif Ihad not been there!

- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  Comment toThomas Creevey at Brussels,19 Jun, the day after the Battle ofWaterloo. Quoted in SirThomas Creevey The Creevey Papers (edited by Sir H Maxwell,1904), p.142.