Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Besant

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

Czeslaw Milosz

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.

D. H. Lawrence

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

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.

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."

Desmond Tutu

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

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.'

Aneurin Bevan

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

Anatole France

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Anais Nin

we cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ...

Alton Brown

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

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 Walken

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

Christopher Paolini

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

Christopher Moore

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

Christopher Moore

She's evil. Evil, evil, evil. I want to see her naked.

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.

Dorothea Dix

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Donna Summer

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

Daniel Pinkwater

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

Damian Marley

Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll.

E. B. White

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.