Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Shusterman

You don't like her, do you?" "Who, me? No, I love her dearly. Evil scheming bitches are my favorite kind of people." (Risa)

Shana Alexander

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

Sholem Asch

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

John Henry Newman

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

John Henry Newman

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Hagee

To see evil and not call it evil is evil.

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.

John Bunyan

He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.

Lois Lowry

Evil can do anything, for a price.

Lloyd Alexander

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

Lloyd Alexander

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Manu Bennett

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

Lytton Strachey

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Louise Bogan

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Louisa May Alcott

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

John Fogerty

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

John Flavel

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).

John Fowles

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Leo Tolstoy

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Leo Tolstoy

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Leo Buscaglia

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.