Quotes About Evil

When you behold the face of pure evil, it will be beautiful.

It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature but as the essence of conscious existence. It is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self at the self's most elementary levels. It is a nausea of the cells and soul.

Devils are actually angels.

That evil people never believe they are evil, but rather that everyone else is evil.

Evil people never believe they are evil, but rather that everyone else is evil.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.

Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love.

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that with base prayers I should repent the evils I have done: Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did Would I perform, if I might have my will; If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. -

And now, tell me, for which of my bad qualities did you first fall in love with me?' 'All of them together,' she said. 'They maintained such a well organised state of evil that they wouldn't allow any good quality to intermingle with them

When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now.

Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.