Francis Beaumont Quotes

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

The corruption of every government begins nearly always with that of principles.

Only our own corruption can destroy us and cause our armed forces to be defeated without fighting.

Evil will destroy itself.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.

America has swerved from its ethical center.

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

I think we live in a quite an immoral society with quite an amoral government and they're going to have to grow up in that and negotiate their own way in it.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

Once a country descends into evil, it doesn't emerge.

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

No one becomes depraved all at once.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.