Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

The devil is compromise.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Quite frequently, economic needs may compel people to act against their best impulses, even strongly felt natural values.

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

When the devil drives, needs must.

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.