Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Wagner

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Charles Dickens

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Charles Dickens

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Alan Moore

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Ed Westwick

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

Ruth Rendell

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

Alexander Pope

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Alex O'Loughlin

I like playing the villain.

Alfred Molina

I love playing villains.

Angelina Jolie

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

Hugh Grant

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

Ken Stott

Villains are often attractive.

Cesare Pavese

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Barry White

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

Bob McDonnell

I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.

Brenton Thwaites

I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Bill Day

It is not a wholesale solution, but an important part of what is required.

Brad Garrett

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

Carl Jung

I would rather be whole than good.