Lisa Kleypas Quotes

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

You can't be all bad all the time.

When I must be mean, I'm mean. When I can be nice, I am nice.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

For good is simple, evil manifold.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.