Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

The fish adores the bait.

Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

She was poison in a pretty bottle.

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

Beautiful is dangerous.