There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse† Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

-Irving,Washington
  Tales of a Traveller,'To the Reader'.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Of the roast mutton he was served at an inn, 3  Jun. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Before youtell someonehowgood youare, you musttell him how bad you used to be.

-Knudsen, Semon Emil
  In Time magazine, 25 May.

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

-Lamb, Lady Caroline
  Of Byron.  Journal entry, Mar, after meeting the poet at a ball. Quoted in Elizabeth  Jenkins Lady Caroline Lamb (1932), ch.6.

There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Attributed to Longfellow by Blanch Roosevelt Tucker Macchetta in The Home Life of Henry  W. Longfellow (1882).

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

-Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner
  On the blocking by the Conservative majority in the House of Lords of the Liberal Government's budget. Speech at Glasgow, Nov.

Look at the poor lives we lead.It is a wonder that we are so good as we are, not that we are so bad.

-Nightingale, Florence
  'Cassandra' pt.2, part of an unpublished work  Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859). Published as an appendix in Ray Strachey The Cause:  A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain (1928).

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

-Pope, Alexander
  Imitations of Horace, epilogue to the satires, dialogue 2, l.197^8.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

-Raban,Jonathan
  Coasting, ch.6.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supportshiskingon loyal principles and cuts off hishead on republican principles.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Man of Destiny.

The humble people of Cambodia are the most wonderful in the world.Their great misfortune is that theyalwayshaveterrible leaders who makethemsuffer.I am not sure I was much better myself, but perhaps I was the least bad.

-Sihanouk, Prince Norodom
  In an interview withWilliam Shawcross, author of Sideshow (1979).

When someone says,'It isgood business', you may be sure it is bad morality.

-Skelton, Robin
A Devious Dictionary.

You should only read what istruly good or what isfrankly bad.

-Stein, Gertrude
Quoted in Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast (1964), ch.3.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,öand of obstinacy in a bad one.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Toby.Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.17.

Technology, while adding daily to our physical ease, throws dailyanother loop of fine wire around our souls. It contributes hugely to our mobility, which we must not confuse with freedom. The extensions of our senses, which we find so fascinating, are not adding to the discrimination of our minds, since we need increasingly to take the reading of a needle on a dial to discover whether we think something isgood or bad, or right or wrong.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  'My Faith in Democratic Capitalism', in Fortune, Oct.

For good ye are and bad, and like to coins, Some true, some light, but every one of you Stamped with the image of the King.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Holy Grail', l.25^7.

The Red Cow was very respectable, shealways behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or whiteöthere was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. People were good or they were badöthere was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or souröthere were never any moderately nice ones.

-Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)
  Mary Poppins, ch.5.

It is because we put up with bad things that hotel- keepers continue to give them to us.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Stavely. Orley Farm, ch.18.

We cannot have heroes to dine with us. There are none. And were those heroes to be had, we should not like them†the persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, becausetheyare so good.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Of Frank Greystock.The Eustace Diamonds, ch.35.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

-Welles, (George) Orson
Attributed.