Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

Only a madman would give good for evil

Francesco Guicciardini

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

Francis Bacon

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Francis Bacon

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Daniel Craig

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

Erin Hunter

Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

Florence Scovel Shinn

We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Flannery O'Connor

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Fiona Apple

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

Henry Miller

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

Henry Miller

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Henning Mankell

The evil always comes from details.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Helen Keller

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Cassandra Clare

They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

Dennis Hastert

noble mission to free the Iraqi people from an evil tyrant.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

It is our obligation to free them from the clutches of evil, evil that has no boundaries,

Eddie Johnson

It's a necessary evil. I'm trying to get him to a few of the All-American camps.

Sathya Baba

A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

George H. W. Bush

axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

Chuck D.

A tiger can smileA snake will say it loves youLies make us evil

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Every temptation is an opportunity to triumph over evil.

Jared Harris

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

Jane Porter

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

Jane Roberts

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

Euripides

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Ernest Cline

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.