Evil. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Evil


None are all evil. Byron.—The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 12.	1
Evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart. Thos. Hood.—The Lady’s Dream, last verse but one.	2
The privilege that rich men have in evil, Is, that they go unpunish’d to the devil. May.—The Old Couple, Act V.	3
Evil, be thou my good. Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 110.	4
From seeming evil still educing good. Thomson.—A Hymn, Line 114.	5
On adamant our wrongs we all engrave, But write our benefits upon the wave. King.—Art of Love, Line 971.	6
Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act IV. Scene 2. (Griffith to Queen Katherine.)	7
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Antony to the Citizens.)	8
The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them. Fletcher.—Thierry and Theodret, Act I. Scene 1.	9