Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Wallace

Well, it's very boring. It's very boring. I guess I view it as a necessary evil.

Whoever speaks evil to you of others will speak evil of you to others.

Bertrand Russell

One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

William Shakespeare

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

William Shakespeare

Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

William Shakespeare

The devil is a gentleman.

Jane Austen

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Samuel Butler

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Gilbert Parker

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Joanne Harris

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Jo Nesbo

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

James St. James

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

James Stewart

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

James Madison

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

James Madison

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

James Madison

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

James Madison

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

John Oliver

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

John Milton

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

John Calvin

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

John Calvin

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

John Calvin

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

John Bartlett

To resist him that is set in authority is evil

Jimmy Sangster

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

George A. Smith

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

Franklin Graham

Islam is an evil and wicked religion.

Francois Fenelon

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

Frank A. Clark

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.