Sheri L. Dew Quotes

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

We have a Sunday code and a weekday code. We preach good and practice evil. We clothe the wolf of our actions in the sheep's clothing of our beautiful phrases.

Passion, prejudice, and error, are characteristics of human nature ….. Literary talents may be prostituted, and the powers of genius debased to subserve the purposes of ambition or avarice.

Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

Evil thenceforth became my good.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

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

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.