Famous Quotes - Tags - Evil
- ... by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do... More
- ... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine. More
- ... idleness is an evil. I don’t think man can maintain his balance or sanity in idleness.... More
- ...I believe it is woman’s right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she... More
- A fox cannot hide its tail. More
- A lifetime of doing good is not enough; one day of doing evil is too much. More
- A wolf will walk a thousand miles to eat people: a dog half way to heaven will still eat dung. More
- Ah evil wedlock! Ah fate!
she incites all to evil,
she flutters over all things,
like... More
- All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. More
- All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and... More
- All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of... More
- All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. More
- Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two... More
- And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still... More
- And images of self-confusednesses
Which hurt imaginations only see—
And from this... More
- And we ask this where truth is,
Of what use is valour and is worth?
For evil has... More
- As for his evil tidings,
Belshazzar’s overthrow,
Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
What... More
- As when a prowling wolf,
Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,
Watching where... More
- At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn’t. Something evil had taken possession of... More
- Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. More
- Blame but thyself that hast misdone,
And well deserved to have blame;
Change thou thy way... More
- But countless plagues wander among men; for earth is full of evils, and the sea is full. More
- But even in a telephone booth
evil can seep out of the receiver
and we must cover it with... More
- But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch’s high estate; More
- But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
Carrying the world’s weight of the world’s... More
- But keepe the wolfe far thence, that’s foe to men,
For with his nailes he’ll dig them up... More
- But the hot hell that always in him burns,
Though in mid Heaven, soon ended his... More
- But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb?... More
- By heaven, he echoes me,
As if there were some monster in his thought
Too hideous to be... More
- By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. More
- Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God. More
- Catherine: “Why commit Evil?”
Gtz: “Because Good has already been... More
- Chrome: her pretty childface smooth as steel, with eyes that would have been at home at the... More
- Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering... More
- Crows are black the world over. More
- Divinity of hell!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first... More
- Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. More
- Doctor, the devil is a busy man. More
- Ere the bat hath flown
His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate’s summons
The... More
- Even in a bamboo tube, a snake still wants to wiggle. More
- Every town has an Elm Street. More
- Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary... More
- Evil be to him who evil thinks.
(Honi soit qui mal y pense.) More
- Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives... More
- Evil counsel travels fast. More
- Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken... More
- Evil gains work their punishment. More
- Evil is ... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it... More
- Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. More
- Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of... More
- Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. More
- Evil is maybe lying to God.
Or better, lying to love. More
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them... More
- Evil is simply
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between... More
- Evil is something you recognise immediately you see it: it works through charm. More
- Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is... More
- Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not... More
- Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table. More
- Evil was active in the land,
Good was impoverished and sad. More
- Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. More
- Fly from the company of the wicked—fly and turn not back. More
- For any eye is an evil eye
That looks in onto a mood apart. More
- For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. More
- For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. More
- For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against... More
- Fox-fire dares not meet real fire. More
- Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain... More
- Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. Now suppose we could break that... More
- Goodness shall be repaid with goodness, and evil repaid with evil; never fear; the day of... More
- Guilty. Guilty. My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it. More
- Have you ever had a single moment’s thought about my responsibilities? More
- He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the... More
- Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. More
- Here’s Johnny! More
- Hit’s growin, stark and heich,
derk and straucht and sinister,
kirkyairdie-like and... More
- How did it die?
I called it EVIL.
I said to it, your poems stink like vomit. More
- I couldn’t claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into... More
- I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?... More
- I feel a strange delight that fills me full,
Strange gratitude, as if evil itself were... More
- I had to prosper good and punish evil.
You changed all that. You set me free to... More
- I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, More
- I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. More
- I have’t. It is engendered. Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s... More
- I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: “I want that... More
- I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall... More
- I spent eight years trying to reach him and then another seven trying to keep him locked up... More
- I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus... More
- If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You... More
- If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be... More
- If one does not do evil things in the daytime, one need not fear knocks on the door in the middle... More
- If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. More
- If thou dost slander her and torture me,
Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
On... More
- If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can... More
- If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it,... More
- Ignorance is the mother of all evils. More
- In a pleasant spring morning all men’s sins are forgiven. Such a day is a truce to vice. While... More
- In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil. Good is a good... More
- In the core of God’s abysm,—
Was a weed of self and schism;
And ever the Daemonic... More
- Innocence is lovely in the child, because in harmony with its nature; but our path in life is not... More
- International relations is security, it’s trade relations, it’s power games. It’s not... More
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