“On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Part I, line 385
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Source: The Red Pyramid
“On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Part I, line 385
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.”
Richard Branson (1950) English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
Source: Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
“Were there no lust of gain none would be evil.”
Diphilus Athenian poet of New Comedy
Fragment 14
Fabulae Incertae
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
The Osbournes television show.
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ozzy-osbourne-maddest-moments-10-1837387
“It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.”
Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables
Stone Tables (1997)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Churchyard from The London Literary Gazette (3rd January 1829)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884) United States poet and novelist
Sparkling and Bright (published 1840).