William Joyce Quotes

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

I took whatever the devil offered me.

An evil word it is/ This Love.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

You never know when the devil might come calling.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Evil, be thou my good.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.