Quotes
Quotes about Evil
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man,â it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great deal in evil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. In a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp.
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.
You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
They that know no evil will suspect none.
Evil be to him who evil thinks.
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-.
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
