A Quote by Thomas Gray

Hell is full of good intentions.

Thomas Gray

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Thomas Gray
English - Poet
December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

Saint Francis de Sales

I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Madonna Ciccone

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.

Robert Briffault

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Samuel Johnson

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

Shania Twain

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

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 H. Humphrey

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw

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

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

Aja Naomi King

I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Aldous Huxley

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Robert Southey

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.