Subtle Corruption Quotes

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

In 'Age of Innocence,' the opening flowers, that's a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We attempted to show that with flowers that start as sweet and then slowly become malevolent.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.