Lord Byron Quotes

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

At times we used questionable means to achieve our noble ends.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

President Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

When you have to choose between two evils, the choice is going to be evil.

Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'