Christopher Moore Quotes

Evil is a broad church. There are so many different ways to be evil. Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in True Blood. He was pretty angsty about it, but he thought he was doing the right thing.

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.

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

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.