Quotes
Quotes about Evil
Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous. By'r Lady, he is a good musician.
Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in.
We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. [It., L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene e sempre inferiore.]
"In innocence there is no strength against evil," said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it for good."
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum, Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is a devil.
Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan making tay. For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod, Fightin' like devils for conciliation, And hatin' each other for the Love of God.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
To the devil with those who published before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
