Source: Changes
Alex Lightwood, Simon Lewis, and the Seelie Queen, pg. 353-354
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: There,' he said, pointing to the leafy tunnel. 'That goes farther into Faerie. And that'--he pointed ahead--'is the road to Hell. That's where we're going.'
'I always heard it was paved with good intentions,' said Simon.
'Place your feet upon the way and find out, Daylighter,' said the Queen.
Statement after the October Revolution of 1917, as quoted in "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb" in TIME (24 April 1964).
Attributions
“She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still”
"The Uses of Anger"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The road to hell is littered with ads.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
To his personal secretary John Colville the evening before Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. As quoted by Andrew Nagorski in The Greatest Battle (2007), Simon & Schuster, pp. 150–151 ISBN 0743281101
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variant: If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.”
Iría al paraíso, pero con mi infierno; solo, no.
Voces (1943)
“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
As quoted in "Works in Progress" in The New York Times Book Review (15 July 1979), page BR1
