Badness Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Badness Goodness Hero Heroines Wickedness
I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Not everything that is good make everyone happy. A heroic act may be considered as an act of a villain by others. That's why… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The hero has to be an archetype; they have to be like a dream; they have to be perfect. The evil is closer to… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
“If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the… — Lon Chaney, Jr Copy Share Image
Before you^say something Bad to^others ask your-self^why are^you the only one saw^the badness and--> — Junior Dè Rèál Testament Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
