Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

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

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.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

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

Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

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

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.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.