Quintilian Quotes

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

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.

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

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

I'm a villain at heart. I'm a born villain.

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

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

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

Vice is its own reward.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.