Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

So now the devil's in my soul.

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

... sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

Every soul is a battlefield.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.