Quotes
Quotes about Evil
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,--poverty.
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us?
Is this the great poet whose works so content us?
This Goldsmith's fine feast, who has written fine books?
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks?
Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
The bane of all that dread the Devil.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.
From his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A-walking the Devil is gone,
To look at his little snug farm of the World,
And see how his stock went on.
Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.
Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.
There was a laughing devil in his sneer.
The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice,
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good.
Is there evil but on earth? or pain in every peopled sphere?
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
He's tough, ma'am,--tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;
What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Pain is no evil,
Unless it conquer us.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
