John Bunyan Quotes

Pure by impure is not seen.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Bad company corrupts good character.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.

You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.