The Worst Quotes

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

Silence can be the worst ridicule.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

The worst is likely to be behind us.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

On your best day, you're only as good as I am on my worst with one arm tied behind my back.

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I meant best.

You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Writing is the worst part of being a writer.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.