A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.