Henry Fielding Quotes

Evil changes everybody!

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent.

There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them.

If you teach your boy that it is right to buy a vote, it is an easy step for him to learn to use money to bribe or corrupt officials or trustees of any class. If you teach your boy that it is right to steal votes, it is an easy step for him to believe that it is right to steal whatever he may need or greatly desire. The results of such an influence will enter every branch of society, it will reach your bank cashiers, and affect positions of trust in every department; it will ultimately enter your courts, and affect the administrations of justice.

I feel like every time you think you really understand how deep the seductive power of evil is, it always proves to be one step deeper than you thought possible.

No one every suddenly became depraved.

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

That which is evil is soon learned.

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

All evil is good become cancerous.