Badass Quotes

“I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity.”
― John Wayne

“Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“The problem was that Simon did not know how to pack like a badass.”
― Cassandra Clare, Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming onto this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn't have bothered with you otherwise. You can't screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It's who you always will be. It's not up for negotiation.”
― Jen Sincero

“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them”
― Queen Victoria

“Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Simon looked for his friend Jace, who was kneeling by himself in the overgrown grass and sharpening a short blade against a stone. Simon assumed Jace had his reasons for this; or possibly he just knew he looked cool doing it. Possibly he and Isabelle could do a joint photo shoot for Badass Monthly.”
― Cassandra Clare, Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“No,' she said. 'No, I don't reckon that's what I do now. Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchin' real close?'

Her gaze travelled the room and rested for just a fraction of a second on Magrat.

Then she reached over, carefully, and thrust her arm up to the elbow into the burning torch.

And the doll in Erzulie Gogol's hands burst into flame.

It went on blazing even after the witch had screamed and dropped it on to the floor. It went on burning until Nanny Ogg ambled over with a jug of fruit juice from the buffet, whistling between her teeth, and put it out.

Granny withdrew her hand. It was unscathed.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Bitte. Es ist Morgan! Abschlussballkönig, Sportstar, Einserkandidat, Rebell, Sexgott." - Tori”
― Simona Dobrescu, Verdammt. Verliebt.

“I whirled around. “It wasn’t just a kiss,” I said. I was getting really mad. “Maybe that’s how you wanted it to look, like it was just a kiss. But you and I both know what it really was: A media event. And one that you’ve been planning since you saw me in the Post. Well, thank you, Josh, but I can get my own publicity. I don’t need you.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

“Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. “Grandmère!” I yelled.
“What’d you say to them? What’d you say to convince them to let me go?”
But Grandmère just laughed in this scary way and said, “I have my ways.”
Boy, did I ever not hate her then.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

“You drop my name again, I’ll hunt you down and cut off everything that protrudes from your body. You get me?”
― Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Revolution

“I'm not talking about faith in God, I'm talking about faith in Mark Watney”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“You think I needed you? You don't think I could have given Myrna Mountweazel a Benadryl so she'd sleep through my stealing the safe from under my parents' bed? Or snuck into your bedroom while you were sleeping and taken your car key? I didn't need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back." Now she looked at me. "And that's like a promise. At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. Till dawn do us part.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“And, dying, he declined to die.”
― Jack London, Love of Life

“You do bad things to me, Carrie,” he grinned, “Very bad things.”
― Kassandra Cross, Carrie's First Time

“I don't need to resort to threats when I have facts on my side.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Home

“W-what are you?"

Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.”
― Anne Bishop, The House of Gaian

“I've had some good times, had some bad. Took some lumps. Scored some points. Half-way through life, at 43, I still say, 'go for broke.' No government, no FBI, no judge, no jailer is ever gonna make me say 'uncle.' Now, as then, let the game continue. I bet my stake on freedom's call; I'll play these cards with no regrets.”
― Abbie Hoffman

“Far be it from me to slow down two badass supermodels on a mission, but we have a problem," a male voice said wryly.
I could see Christian out of the corner of my eye as we turned, his stance and movements almost synchronized to my own. We shared a look, our expressions almost identically similar, with arched brows and half-smiles.
"What's the problem?" I called out, scanning the faces to see who had spoken.
"You're a badass supermodel," Christian muttered under his breath at the same time, taking the mature approach, as usual.”
― Rebecca K. Lilley, Breathing Fire

“Tyler stood next to me, both looking at the big O of my mouth with blood all around it and the little slit of my eye staring up at us from the floor, and Tyler says, "Cool.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Sou uma arma feita de carne, uma espada coberta de pele. Nasci para matar um rei, para acabar com um reino de terror antes mesmo de começar pra valer. Fogo e eletricidade elevaram Maven, e fogo e eletricidade vão derrubá-lo.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Goodbye, Dr Goldstein.' I start to walk away, then stop and turn. 'Oh, and for the record my name's Charlotte.' And turning back, I keep on walking. Somehow I don't think that's a name he's going to forget in a hurry.”
― Alexandra Potter, Who's That Girl?: A funny and enchanting romcom from the author of CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY-SOMETHING F##K UP!

“My gaze moved to Vance. He was looking up at me and I could read nothing in his eyes.
"Another pop?" I asked.
He shook his head but kept watching me. I looked at the floor and started from the room.
I had to pass Vance's chair to get to the kitchen. As I did, I slowed and as if it had a mind of it's own, my hand came out and I ran the backs of my finger's along Vance's jaw.”
― Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Renegade

“I do not know the word 'quit'. Either I never did, or I have abolished it.”
― Susan Butcher

“My name’s Elai, Ellai’s daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you’re on my land.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Forty Thousand in Gehenna

“Since the dawn of time, nearly every man (and I'd wager to guess most women) has, at his most visceral level, secretly desired for one thing - to be standing triumphantly atop a heaping pile of his slain enemies, holding a gigantic axe aloft while some unbelievably attractive member of whatever gender he's attracted to desperately clutches his leg like it's the last life raft on the HMS Titanic.”
― Ben Thompson, Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch: Skull-Crushing True Stories of the Most Hardcore Duels, Showdowns, Fistfights, Last Stands, Suicide Charges, and Military Engagements of All Time

“Soze shook his head. “If someone checks our Internet search records, don’t you think it will look suspicious that before we called the police, we checked up on the evidence?”
Poe laughed mirthlessly. “We’re Rose & Grave, junior. Everything we do looks suspicious.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Under the Rose

“When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.”
― Monroe Ariel, Her OutSpoken Lips: Part I & Part II

“I am a total badass. A fat badass.”
― Julie Murphy