Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all

The dreary intercourse of daily life.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

Lay on, Macduff,

And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 8.

What rage for fame attends both great and small!

Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

John Wolcot (1738-1819): To the Royal Academicians.

And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto x. Stanza 24.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd

Firm concord holds, men only disagree

Of creatures rational.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 496.

I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.

George Canning (1770-1827): The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.

Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,

Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;

For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1.

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd,

The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind!

Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,

See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 281.

All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 158.

May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,

And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.

Richard Savage (1698-1743): Character of Foster.

The damned use that word in hell.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3.