Joseph Addison Quotes

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Evil changes everybody!

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

Evil be to him who evil thinks

… a sewer with all the depravity of the human race.

Evil does not grow out of the soil, nor does mischief spring from the ground. Only man is born to do mischief, just as sparks fly upward.

We have a Sunday code and a weekday code. We preach good and practice evil. We clothe the wolf of our actions in the sheep's clothing of our beautiful phrases.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.