Gerald of Wales Quotes

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.