Philip Pullman Quotes

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

To some people I'll always be the bad guy.

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to

He’s on our side and that’s all that matters. Besides, one needn’t ask him to one’s club.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

People like Tay Don, Don Cannon, and OJ Da Juiceman - those were the core people that I rock with. And I still rock with them.

I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.

I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I'm not.

All the devils respect virtue.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?