„The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.An evil soul producing holy witnessIs like a villain with a smiling cheek,A goodly apple rotten at the heart.O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!“

— William Shakespeare

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„One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.“
— William Shakespeare
„He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.“
— Rick Riordan
„Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face for all occasions“
— William Shakespeare
„You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.“
— Paulo Coelho
„I like a church, I like a cowl,I love a prophet of the soul,And on my heart monastic aislesFall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;Yet not for all his faith can see,Would I that cowled churchman be.Why should the vest on him allure,Which I could not on me endure?“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.“
— Shams-i Tabrizi