America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

-Bailey, PhilipJames
  Festus, sc.10.

She was not really bad at heart, But only rather rude and wild; She was an aggravating child.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Rebecca'.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

-Bradley, Francis Herbert
  Appearance and Reality, preface.

We loved, siröused to meet: How sad and bad and mad it wasö But then, how it was sweet!

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'Confessions', stanza 9.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.

-Browning, Robert
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.10, l.1235^7.

   When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

-Burke, Edmund
  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

-Burke, Edmund
  Speech, Bristol.

No man who has once heartilyand wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.4.

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  Dipsychus (published1865), sc.5.

And people in life hardly seem definite enough to appear in print. Theyare not good or bad enough, or clever or stupid enough, or comic or pitiful enough.

-Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy
  Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

-Defoe, Daniel
  'Character of the Late Dr  Annesley'.

I mean, after all; you have to consider that we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean, it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it.You get me?

-Dick, Philip K(indred)
  The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, closing words.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.

-Fields,W C originally  William Claude Dukenfield
Attributed.

We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.

-Fo, Dario
  The Bloody Brother, act 4, sc.2 (with Ben  Jonson, George Chapman and Philip Massinger).

There never was a good war or a bad peace. 334

-Franklin, Benjamin
  Letter,11 Sep. Italian  monk  and  saint,  founder  of  the  Franciscan  order. The son    of    a    wealthy    merchant,    in   1206    he    renounced    his patrimony   and   became   a   hermit,   attracting   followers   who rejected  all  forms   of   property.   His  works   include   sermons, ascetic treatises and hymns.

   About morals,I know only that what ismoral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Death in the Afternoon, ch.1.

Joy, I did lock thee up; but some bad man Hath let thee out again.

-Herbert, George
'The Bunch of Grapes', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

-Hockney, David
  David Hockney.

A bad book isasmuchof a labour towriteas a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Point Counter Point, ch.13.