Sentence examples for evil to him from inspiring English sources

As bystanders snickered, Edward gallantly picked up the garter and put it on his own leg, admonishing the courtiers in French with the phrase that remains the order's motto, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" ("Shame to him who thinks evil of it," popularly rendered as "Evil to him who evil thinks").

But I speak in this vehement manner, as I must frankly confess to you, because I want to hear from you the opposite side; and I would ask you to show not only the superiority which justice has over injustice, but what effect they have on the possessor of them which makes the one to be a good and the other an evil to him.

If I were a Rolls dealer and a driver came in complaining of such things, I would simply take the car away, invoking the motto of the British royals, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" -- "Evil to him who thinks evil of it," the remark Edward III made when the Countess of Salisbury's garter fell.

His ordinary activity is to tempt man toward evil, to lead him to temptation, to sin, to push him to break divine law.

When man wants an evil, he'll always find someone evil to supply him".

"It is important to cultivate the future victim's supposed potential for evil, to transform him into a monster of iniquity," writes Girard.

Despite a Schwarzenegger-size chest, he is an accidental action hero who grovels and pleads with the forces of evil to spare him.

It was fair to say that it had been Chapman's own decision to kill Lennon, but he had then prayed to the powers of evil to give him strength to do it.

The man she saw behind a glass booth, however, seemed so eerily ordinary and even mediocre (his sentences were littered with bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo) that she coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to describe him.

Hence Henriette Walter's clever title (the British royal family uses French to express the motto, "Evil be to him who evil thinks" but misses out one of the "n"s), and the benign subtitle noting "the unbelievable love-story between French and English".Indeed.Indeed

The terrifying experience in the restaurant — terrifying not because of the evil done to him but because of the evil he suddenly felt able to do — helped to give Baldwin his first real understanding of his father, who had grown up in the South, the son of a slave, and who had, like Wright, been witness to unnameable horrors before escaping to the mundane humiliations of the North.