History Quotes / AllGirlswantBadBoys

-->-- ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}''

Okay, what exactly are you ladies looking for in a man here? They must have been heavy on the old sense of humor that you always talk about in your little women's polls. "Ted Bundy, that old whip, he's hilarious. Some of the things Ted would do, he kills me. I overlooked the whole mass murder things 'cause he kept me in stitches." It's just depressing. Michael Bolton, Garth Brooks – achey breaky fucking dick this guy is – Ted Bundy getting wedding proposals.\\

Just one thing I know for sure - chicks dig jerks, yeah.''

->"Witnesses said the sexy and oh-so-single Jeffries – best known for his role as daredevil test pilot Johnny Spade in the blockbuster ''G-Force'' movies – committed the murders 'for no apparent reason,' mowing down his terrified prey 'with cold-blooded precision, deaf to their desperate pleas for mercy.'" Ouch!"

->''"Be my bad boy, be my man.''
->''Be my weekend lover, but don't be my friend."''

->''"Yeah the bad boys are always catching my eye''
->''I said the bad boys are always spinning my mind''
->''Even though I know they're no good for me''
->''It's the risk I take for the chemistry''
->''With the bad boys always catching my eye"''

->''"Now you're in love, and why shouldn't you be?''
->''I'm everything you'll never be."''

->'''Puck''': Jesse will never fully know what it feels like to be a Jew.
->'''Rachel''': I'm ironically turned on by your bad boy image, but let's keep this professional.
-->-- ''Series/{{Glee}}''

->''"It amuses me. It honestly amuses me. People have been waxing lyrical [in letters] about Draco Malfoy, and I think that's the only time when it stopped amusing me and started almost worrying me. I'm trying to clearly distinguish between Tom Felton, who is a good looking young boy, and Draco, who, whatever he looks like, is not a nice man. It’s a romantic, but unhealthy, and unfortunately all too common delusion of — delusion, there you go — of girls, and you [nods to Melissa] will know this, that they are going to change someone. And that persists through many women's lives, till their death bed, and it is uncomfortable and unhealthy and it actually worried me a little bit, to see young girls swearing undying devotion to this really imperfect character, because there must be an element in there, that 'I'd be the one who [changes him]'. I mean, I understand the psychology of it, but it is pretty unhealthy. So, a couple of times I have written back, possibly quite sharply, saying [Laughter], 'You want to rethink your priorities here'."''

->'''Fred''': Women don't love men for their goodness.
->'''Mary''': Perhaps not. But if they love them, they never think them bad.

->'''Valerian:''' Little Goody Two-shoes with an Ivy League education are always attracted to galaxy-hopping bad boys like me.
->'''Laureline:''' [[SubvertedTrope My Ivy League education taught me to steer clear from bad boys like you.]]

->'''Juni:''' Gary's a bad guy, Carmen.
->'''Carmen:''' Maybe I know that. [[ICanChangeMyBeloved I think I can change him!]]
->'''Juni:''' I do not understand you.
->'''Carmen:''' And you never will.

->''Why the worst type of man can always be relied upon to please and interest the nicest of women has long been a problem beyond me. I knew instinctively that Allerton was a rotter – and nine men out of ten would have agreed with me. Whereas nine women or possibly the whole ten would have fallen for him immediately.''

->''Everyone, my friend, demands a spice of danger in their lives. Some get it vicariously – as in bullfights. Some read about it. Some find it at the cinema. But I am sure of this – too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being. Men find danger in many ways – women are reduced to finding their danger mostly in affairs of sex. That is why, perhaps, they welcome the hint of the tiger – the sheathed claws, the treacherous spring. The excellent fellow who will make a good and kind husband – they pass him by.''

->"It's never any good, is it, telling young girls that men have a bad reputation? It–it just spurs them on!"

->''"[[ComicBook/LexLuthor He]] was guilty of robbery and murder, industrial espionage and several attempts at terrorism...It was obvious to Kitty that he'd [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking steal the money out of the church hat]], if he ever went to church.\\

Where most people saw smiley faces in the moon, he saw worlds ripe for conquest. It was sort of thrilling."''

->''"I'll make a rich woman beg, and make a good woman steal''\\
''I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young girl squeal''\\
''I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone''\\
''But I gotta tell ya honey, that I'm bad to the bone!"''
-->-- '''George Thorogood''', ''Bad to the Bone''

->''"He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good''
->''He's a rebel and he'll never ever be understood''
->''And just because he doesn't do what everybody else does''
->''That's no reason why I can't give him all my love''
->''He is always good to me, always treats me tenderly''
->'''Cause he's not a rebel, no no no''
->''He's not a rebel, no no no, to me"''
-->-- '''The Crystals''', "He's a Rebel"

->''"Witnesses said the sexy and oh-so-single Jeffries – best known for his role as daredevil test pilot Johnny Spade in the blockbuster ''G-Force'' movies – committed the murders 'for no apparent reason,' mowing down his terrified prey 'with cold-blooded precision, deaf to their desperate pleas for mercy.'" Ouch!"''
-->-- '''[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/irrepressible-bad-boy-slays-seven,450/ Irrepressible Bad Boy Slays Seven]]''', ''Website/TheOnion''

->''"Who's that guy? The guy with all the tattoos who just punched that other guy in the gut and stole his car keys? The guy who called me a bitch and told me to stay out of his business? I want him to get me pregnant."''

''But they love him''\\
''Breaks a new heart''\\
''Ev'ry day''\\


->''He's a tramp''\\
''They adore him''\\
''And I only hope''\\
''He stays that way..."''

-->-- '''Cobra Starship''', ''Nice Guys Finish Last'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2Imyu8Jfc]].

->''"It's always the bad boy that makes the good girl's heart beat just a little bit faster."''
-->-- '''Simon R. Green''', ''Literature/SomethingFromTheNightside''

->''"Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery''
->''Say he must go free / (Maxwell must go free)''
->''The judge does not agree and he tells them / So"''
-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpCV2wgoxC8 Maxwell's Silver Hammer]]''', ''Franchise/TheBeatles''

-->-- '''Theory of a Deadman''', "Gentleman"

-->-- '''Comedian Glen Foster'''

-->-- '''Nora Roberts'''

->''"You see the glass half empty''\\
''(Never enough for this bad boy)''\\
''I see the glass half filled''\\
''(She sees some good in this crazy fool)''\\
''I've only got myself to blame''\\
''(Well, you should have known better)''\\
''But Cupid's a real good liar"''
-->-- '''Girlfriend''', cover of '''Laura Branigan''''s "Bad Attitude"

-->-- '''Webcomic/{{Freefall}} [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01089.htm #1089]]'''

->''I've got a fever, Come check it and see''\\
''There's something burning and rolling in me''\\
''We may not last but we'll have fun till it ends''\\
''Come on baby be my bad boyfriend''\\\
''I want to hear you call out my name''\\
''I want to see you burn up in flames''\\
''Keep you on ice so I can show all my friends''\\
''Come on baby be my bad boyfriend''

->'''cause I love playin' with fire''\\
''And I don't wanna get burned''\\
''I love playin' with fire''\\

-->--'''[[Music/TheRunaways The Runaways]]''', "I Love Playin' With Fire"

->''You are wanted and you're hunted''\\
''You're the bad guy but I feel for you''\\
''You're a danger, a fallen angel''\\
''But I like you''\\
''You're the strongest of them all''
-->--'''The Immortals''', "[[Franchise/MortalKombat Kano (Use Your Might)]]"

->''Sasuke didn't see himself as a charming person. He had no idea what all those girls saw in him, to be frank. He was bitter, asocial, wrapped in darkness and scarred by grief. The phrase "damaged goods" surely existed solely to describe people like himself. \\

Their smiling, giggling, blushing, and cooing all angered him. Like they saw it all as one big game, like they didn't take anything seriously. They didn't get it. They refused to understand.''

->'''Laureline:''' [[AvertedTrope My Ivy League education taught me to steer clear from bad boys like you.]]

->"Chick-bots ''dig'' brooding loner bit."

->"The thing about Carlos is... he doesn’t lose himself with a woman. A lover is not different to him. He might have a use for them, so he has to seduce them properly, make sure they're so crazy about him that they'll do anything for him. It's not...not pleasure, it's a sick kind of conquest. He'll do anything... he is the perfect lover. He'll do it all not to please you, but to excite you, to make it dangerous for you. ''(starts to [[ADateWithRosiePalms stroke herself between her thighs]])'' It's [[EvilIsSexy very sexy too, to a woman that danger]], like he could kill you in a second but instead he makes you come. And it's like he's killed you and there isn't anything left of you and... he makes you be reborn again the way he wants you to be, so there isn't a thought in your brain that he hasn't put there. Not a feeling in your body that he hasn't put there."
-->-- '''Carla''', ''[[Film/TheAssignment1997 The Assignment]]'' (1997).

->''He's a bad boy with a tainted heart
->And even I know this ain't smart
->But mama I'm in love with a criminal''

->Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug-taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine without batting an eyelash and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least!

->"Being as cold, cruel, and selfish as you can... that's what I call a real man!!"

'''Principal Skeeves:''' Oh, that degenerate if Oskar Greason. I'd stay away if I were you, that boy has a record.\\

->''So why do good girls like bad guys?
->I've had this question for a real long time
-->I've been a bad boy and it's plain to see
->So why do good girls fall in love with me?''

->"And there are few women who care for a kind, gentle husband. They'd sooner have a handsome, blustering brute like Sobek- he's the one to take a girl's fancy."

->''"Kyril [[GenreBlindness did not understand]] [[LampshadeHanging why that was happening]]. He killed people on a daily basis and already women were trying to line up at his door."''

->"My dear Mr Jeffries, you do not understand women. If a woman has to choose between a mug and a Don Juan, she will choose Don Juan every time. Your wife, Mr Jeffries, is a charming, innocent, high-minded girl, and the only way she is going to get any kick out of her life with you is to believe that she has reformed a rake."

->"You admire a tiger until he turns on you and you feel its true fucking nature!"

->"I would like someone who will break my heart into pieces and stomp it into the ground, please."

->Joyce, y'''do'' know that all those sparkly vampire stories 'bout findin'somehot asshole an' changin' him into softboi husband material were, like, fictional WishFulfillment, right?
-->--''[[ManChild Walky]]'' [[https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/03-joementum/dirt-2/ of all people]], ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''

-->--''[[ManChild Walky]]'' [[www.dumbingofage.com of all people]], ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''

->''"I actually ''don't'' think girls like a guy who treats them bad. But I do think they--we--get off a little on the idea of changing someone for the better, or the idea of having ''the power'' that someone loves us so much that he'll [[CharacterDevelopment change or sacrifice something for us]]. ... A nice guy doesn't need to change, and, most importantly, he's already nice to everyone. How do you know that you're special if he [[LoveYouAndEverybody treats everyone else with as much kindness and respect as he treats you]]? The "bad boy" type, though? He may range from simple, garden-variety jackhole (hello, [[Series/{{Lost}} Sawyer]]!) to appalling psychopath (hello, [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Lecter]]!), but you know he loves you because he's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold completely different around you]]. You are an exception to his very ''nature.'' This is how "villain" ends up drifting towards "{{antihero}}"--{{Dracula}}, Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, Spike on ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'', [[DracoInLeatherPants fanfic!Draco Malfoy]]--but you even see it with straightforward heroes: [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Mr. Darcy]] and [[Literature/JaneEyre Mr. Rochester]] are both cold, prickly, withdrawn types until Lizzie Bennet and Jane Eyre arrive, respectively, to [[ManicPixieDreamGirl bewilder and melt them]]. ''That's'' the fantasy."''

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'' ("City of Clipsville")

->''"I know there are women who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on."''
-->-- '''Karen''' about her relationship with Henry, ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''

-->-- '''Mao''' sums up Lelouch and Shirley's relationship, ''Anime/CodeGeass''

-->-- '''Mao'' sums up Lelouch and Shirley's relationship, ''Anime/CodeGeass''

-->--Chandler Bing, ''Series/{{Friends}}''

->''"I actually ''don't'' think girls like a guy who treats them bad. But I do think they--we--get off a little on the idea of changing someone for the better, or the idea of having ''the power'' that someone loves us so much that he'll [[CharacterDevelopment change or sacrifice something for us]]. ... A nice guy [[StaticCharacter doesn't need to change]], and, most importantly, he's already nice to everyone. How do you know that you're special if he [[LoveYouAndEverybody treats everyone else with as much kindness and respect as he treats you]]? The "bad boy" type, though? He may range from simple, garden-variety jackhole (hello, [[Series/{{Lost}} Sawyer]]!) to appalling psychopath (hello, [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Lecter]]!), but you know he loves you because he's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold completely different around you]]. You are an exception to his very ''nature.'' This is how "villain" ends up drifting towards "{{antihero}}"--{{Dracula}}, Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, Spike on ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'', [[DracoInLeatherPants fanfic!Draco Malfoy]]--but you even see it with straightforward heroes: [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Mr. Darcy]] and [[Literature/JaneEyre Mr. Rochester]] are both cold, prickly, withdrawn types until Lizzie Bennet and Jane Eyre arrive, respectively, to [[ManicPixieDreamGirl bewilder and melt them]]. ''That's'' the fantasy."''

->''Why the worst type of man can always be relied upon to please and interest the nicest of women has long been a problem beyond me. I knew instinctively that Allerton was a rotter – and nine men out of ten would have agreed with me. Whereas nine women or possibly the whole ten would have fallen for him immediately.''

-->--'''Literature/MrsMarple''', ''{Literature/Nemesis}}''

->''"Kyril did not understand why that was happening. He killed people on a daily basis and already women were trying to line up at his door."''

'''Principal Skeeves:''' Oh, that degenerate if Oskar Greason. I'd stay awayif I were you, that boy has a record.\\