Quintilian Quotes

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

I'm interested in villainy.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

Evil be to him who evil thinks

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

That which is evil is soon learned.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

An evil word it is/ This Love.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

Good land, evill way.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness