Could Have Been Quotes
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
"The Osbournes". TV Series, 2002-2005.
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.153
J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.204, Vintage