47 Terribly Bad Quotes

In a world overflowing with inspiration and wisdom, sometimes it's refreshing to take a step back and embrace the ridiculous. Welcome to our curated collection of the top 47 Terribly Bad Quotes—statements so offbeat, misguided, or hilariously nonsensical that they end up being amusing in their sheer absurdity. Whether you're looking for a chuckle or just want to marvel at how words can go so spectacularly wrong, you're in the right place. Dive in and enjoy a good laugh at these cringe-worthy gems!

1. “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” - Oscar Wilde

2. “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

3. “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

4. “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

5. “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!” - Leo Tolstoy

6. “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

7. “This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.” - Roman Payne

8. “If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.” - Karl Lagerfeld

9. “Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.” - Tamora Pierce

10. “There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.” - Diana Pharaoh Francis

11. “No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.” - Holly Black

12. “It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed.""That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.” - Terry Pratchett

13. “I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.” - Ernest Hemingway

14. “I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here.” - C. JoyBell C.

15. “Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.” - Oscar Wilde

16. “Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.” - T.F. Hodge

17. “Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” - Criss Jami

18. “Bags!” - Terry Goodkind

19. “Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

20. “A menos que hayáis sido muy, muy afortunados, habréis experimentado sucesos en vuestra vida que os habrán hecho llorar. Así pues, a menos que hayáis sido muy, muy afortunados, sabréis que una buena y larga sesión de llanto a menudo puede haceros sentir mejor, aunque vuestras circunstancias no hayan cambiado lo más mínimo.” - Lemony Snicket

21. “Los peores sitios del mundo se pueden soportar si la gente que allí habita es interesante y amable.” - Lemony Snicket

22. “La adopción es una decisión muy importante, algo que no suele suceder de forma impulsiva. Estoy seguro de que vosotros habéis deseado en algún momento de vuestra vida haber sido educados por gente distinta a la que os está educando, pero en el fondo de vuestro corazón sabíais que las posibilidades eran mínimas.” - Lemony Snicket

23. “No lo entendían, pero, como tantos otros sucesos desafortunados de la vida, no por no entenderlos dejan de ser ciertos” - Lemony Snicket

24. “Pero un tipo de libro que a casi nadie le gusta leer es un libro sobre leyes. Los libros sobre leyes son muy largos, muy aburridos y muy difíciles. Es una de las razones por las que muchos abogados ganan tanto dinero. El dinero es un incentivo —la palabra «incentivo» significa aquí «recompensa ofrecida para que hagas algo que no quieres hacer»— para leer libros largos, aburridos y difíciles.” - Lemony Snicket

25. “Es muy útil, cuando uno es joven, aprender la diferencia entre «literal» y «figurado». Si algo ocurre de forma literal, ocurre realmente; si algo ocurre de forma figurada, es como si estuviese ocurriendo. Si tú estás literalmente volando de alegría, por ejemplo, significa que estás saltando en el aire porque te sientes muy contento. Si, en sentido figurado, estás saltando de alegría, significa que estás tan contento que podrías saltar de alegría, pero que reservas tu energía para otros asuntos.” - Lemony Snicket

26. “Cualquiera que conociese a Violet se hubiera dado cuenta de que estaba pensando intensamente, porque llevaba la larga melena recogida con una cinta para que no se le metiera en los ojos. Violet tenía el don de inventar y construir extraños aparatos, y su cerebro se veía inundado a menudo con imágenes de poleas, palancas y herramientas, y ella no quería que algo tan trivial como su cabello la distrajese.” - Lemony Snicket

27. “«Reconocer el terreno» significa observar un lugar concreto para poder urdir un plan. Por ejemplo, si eres un ladrón de bancos —aunque espero que no sea así—, quizá vayas al banco unos días antes de robarlo. Quizá con un disfraz, mires aquí y allá, observando a los guardas de seguridad, las cámaras y otros obstáculos, para poder planear cómo evitar que te capturen o te maten en el transcurso del robo.” - Lemony Snicket

28. “pero es una triste realidad de la vida que, cuando alguien ha perdido a un ser querido, a veces los amigos le esquivan, justo en el momento en que su presencia es mucho más necesaria.” - Lemony Snicket

29. “El olor de comida cocinándose es a menudo relajante.” - Lemony Snicket

30. “Pero las leyes son un poco raras. Por ejemplo, un país de Asia tiene una ley que obliga a que todas las bicicletas tengan las ruedas del mismo tamaño. Una isla tiene una ley que prohíbe que nadie recoja la fruta. Y una ciudad no demasiado alejada de donde vivimos tiene una ley que me prohíbe acercarme a menos de ocho kilómetros de sus límites.” - Lemony Snicket

31. “Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.” - Sheri Holman

32. “The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.” - Neal Shusterman

33. “Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -” - Sonya Hartnett

34. “There're three reasonspeople get away from here:gone good, gone bad orgone dead.” - Emma Cameron

35. “That’s a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been.” - Sophie Page

36. “ I simply hate the people who have no good words for anyone, who is impolite & who don't respect anyone.” - Prathima Bhandary

37. “I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.” - Jessica Sorensen

38. “Davanti al pericolo si ragiona cattivo.” - Mauro Corona

39. “Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.” - Dejan Stojanovic

40. “Hey Rid?"She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could..."Yeah, Shrinky Dink?""You're not all bad."She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.” - Kami Garcia

41. “...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...” - Paul Hoffman

42. “Good and bad exist always, everywhere” - R. Alan Woods

43. “My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.” - Laura Wiess Such a Pretty Girl

44. “The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

45. “I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...” - Anne Rice

46. “None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.” - Dan Harmon

47. “Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.” - George R.R. Martin