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Quotes about Evil


Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

Martin Luther

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Martin Luther

The Devil was sick,--the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,--the devil a monk was he.

François Rabelaisc

Needs must when the Devil drives.

François Rabelaisc

Scampering as if the Devil drove them.

François Rabelaisc

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

François Rabelaisc

What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.

François Rabelaisc

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

What the devil did he want in that galley?

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

Alain René Le Sage

One that feared God and eschewed evil.

Old Testament

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Old Testament

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Old Testament

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

New Testament

For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

New Testament

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

New Testament

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

New Testament

Evil communications corrupt good manners.

New Testament

By evil report and good report.

New Testament

The love of money is the root of all evil.

New Testament

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