Wicked Quotes

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too bright for this world.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

A wicked book cannot repent.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. Proverbs 12:6

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad.

His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.

Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness.

A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.

...the taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate...entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and . . . adore thee.

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace.

He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God.

He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure.

Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even a little unsound, and no one is so diseased but that some part of him will be healthy -- so no man is so mentally and morally sound, but that he will be in part both mad and wicked; and no man is so mad and wicked but he will be sensible and honourable in part. In like manner there is no genius who is not also a fool, and no fool who is not also a genius.

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.