“It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.”

— Jean Paul Sartre , No Exit

Inès to Estelle after she has applied lipstick, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

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Jean Paul Sartre 321

French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980

Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) Italian writer

La bocca dell'Inferno e piena di buone volontà.
Del Conoscimento di se stesso, p. 492.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 339.

“Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

The Heart of Midlothian', Ch. 30 (1818).
Source: The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.
I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Treason (1988)

“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Variously attributed to Lincoln, Elbert Hubbard, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin and Socrates
Misattributed
Variant: It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

“Ruling hell might be better than being a subject in hell, but not by much.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

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Angela Rasmussen virologist and researcher

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