A Quote by Jerome Flynn

We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.

Jerome Flynn

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Jerome Flynn
English - Actor
Born: March 16, 1963

All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange, endearing part of our culture. Morbid fascination sums it up.

Jane Goldman

Who do I think Jack The Ripper was? Do you know, I've got no idea who Jack The Ripper was. No idea.

Jerome Flynn

Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

Gautama Buddha

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

Maureen Johnson

Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.

Maureen Johnson

I'd always been fascinated by Jack the Ripper and other unsolved crimes.

Robert Graysmith

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

Geraldine Ferraro

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A. A. Milne

I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.

Christopher Bollen

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

Flannery O'Connor

As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.

Janet Evanovich

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

Simon Heffer

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

Franz Kafka

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.