Top 38 Good Intentions Hell Quotes
#1. With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
William James
#2. Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
Andre Geim
#3. If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.
Terence McKenna
#4. While evidence says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
Iain M. Banks
#6. While the road of good intentions might end in hell, the people who tried to fill the potholes along the way deserved at least some credit.
Stephen King
#7. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights
Garry Kasparov
#8. There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.
Mark Lawrence
#9. My road to hell isn't paved with good intentions - or bad - it's just my road.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. Tell your sister I'm all right," Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. "Tell her my intentions are good." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," Charles intoned.
Madeleine L'Engle
#13. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but the path to misery is cobbled with trying to live up to other people's status updates
LaToya Hankins
#14. And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon
Cassandra Clare
#15. The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134
Joe Biden
#16. Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.
Aldous Huxley
#17. The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions.
Glen Duncan
#18. She wasn't sure good intentions always paved the road to hell, but they for sure weren't the highest standard of medical care. She
Joe Hill
#19. I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.
Charlotte Bronte
#20. The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.
Shania Twain
#21. You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones.
Jake Coburn
#22. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. (This is not actually true. The raid to Hell is paved with frozen door-to-door salesman. On weekends, many of the younger demons go ice skating down it.)
Terry Pratchett
#23. He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions
but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.
Stephen King
#24. There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise.
Francis De Sales
#25. Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.
Irvin S. Cobb
#26. Maybe the good intentions paving the road to hell are really the dark shadows that line the alley of righteousness?
J.A. Huss
#27. Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.
Philip K. Dick
#28. Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.
Tucker Max
#29. It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
Robert Southey
#30. The road to hell was paved with good intentions.
Marie Hall
#32. What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
David Mitchell
#33. Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
George Bernard Shaw
#34. Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Ben Harper
#35. The bad news is, your choices and intentions, some people and places, those nights spent awake and all you've done, can lead you to the bottom of the pit. The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled, tooth and nail, out of hell.
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#38. But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.
Neal Shusterman