William Shakespeare Quotes

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

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.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.