William Shakespeare Quotes

The world is increasing in wickedness.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Evil changes everybody!

Wickedness is its own punishment.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

He that does evil hates the light.

The perception of the right of every man to do pretty much as he pleases…. [which will produce] a general profligacy and corruption such as this country has never known.

And thought the nation ne'er would thrive Till all the whores were burnt alive.

When the religion is subjected to restriction, evil, crime, corruption and pornography become spread everywhere

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.