#evil

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#actress #devil #great #husband #i

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#half #i #inferior #land #large

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#distillation #evil #meant #meant to be #playing

Why, it seemed to me I had lost the most of myself; and there was left only a brain which played with ideas, and a body that went delicately down pleasant ways. And I could not believe as my fellows believed, nor could I love them, nor could I detect anything in aught they said or did save their exceeding folly: for I had lost their cordial common faith of what use they made of half-hours and months and years... I had lost faith in the importance of my own actions, too. There was a little time of which the passing might be made endurable; beyond gaped unpredictable darkness: and that was all there was of certainty anywhere. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#dreams

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. ↗

— William Cobbett

#arising #been #called #desire #destructive

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#best friend #both #devil #enemy #friend

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#every #evil #found #george #great

Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#break #creating #endeavors #evil #forget

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood. ↗

— Anthony Collins

#falsehood #good #good and evil #judging #preferring

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#always #bad #bad time #because #classic