Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alton Brown

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Christopher Plummer

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

Christopher Walken

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

Christopher Paolini

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

Christopher Moore

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Christopher Moore

She's evil. Evil, evil, evil. I want to see her naked.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

Anne Sexton

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

Anne Rice

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

Anne Rice

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

Anne Rice

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

we generally get the evil we expect ...

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

Ambrose Bierce

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Ambrose Bierce

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

Ambrose Bierce

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

Ambrose Bierce

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

Ambrose Bierce

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

Ambrose Bierce

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

Ambrose Bierce

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Alice Walker

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Alice Walker

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

Alice Hoffman

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Hoffman

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Cooper

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

Alice Cooper

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.

Aeschines

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Aesop

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Aesop

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

Aeschylus

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.