Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

Alexander Pope

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

E. M. Forster

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Donald Barthelme

There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.

Don DeLillo

Evil is movement towards void.

Don McLean

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

Douglas Adams

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

Dr. Dre

I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.

Dorothy L. Sayers

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Donald Miller

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

Diogenes

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

Deepak Chopra

Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.

Alphonsus Liguori

St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: 'This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.'

Chuck Palahniuk

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Christopher Plummer

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

Christopher Moore

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Alice Hoffman

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Hoffman

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Cooper

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

Alice Cooper

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.

Albert Camus

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Albert Camus

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

Albert Camus

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Albert Camus

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

Annie Besant

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

Amiri Baraka

An evil word it is/ This Love,

Amish Tripathi

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

Amish Tripathi

It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.

Aloe Blacc

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

Anthony Burgess

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Andy Serkis

What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them and we can choose to pretend they're not there, but they are. We're all together in this.