Wickedness Quotes
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. (Quote by - Henry Wheeler Shaw)
It is safest to be moderately base (Quote by - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. (Quote by - Bible)
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. (Quote by - Billy Sunday)
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? (Quote by - L M Montgomery)
The sun also shines on the wicked. (Quote by - Seneca)
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good! (Quote by - Moslih Eddin)
The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. (Quote by - Thomas Mellon)
There's a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. (Quote by - Lucretius)
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. (Quote by - Bible)
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. (Quote by - Indian Proverb)
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men. (Quote by - Jonathan Mayhew)
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. (Quote by - Robert Hunter)
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. (Quote by - Stephen Fry)
Are you call'd forth from out a world of men, To slay the innocent? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. (Quote by - Syrus)
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness. (Quote by - Origen)
The disposition to do a bad deed is the most terrible punishment of the deed it does. (Quote by - Charles Arundell St. John-Mildmay)
The world loves a spice of wickedness. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. (Quote by - Plutarch)
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
What rein can bold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds his fierce career? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. (Quote by - Cicero)
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
For good or evil must in our actions meet; Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. (Quote by - Dr. John Donne)
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. (Quote by - Mary Baker Eddy)
Wickedness is weakness. (Quote by - John Milton)
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. (Quote by - Sophocles)
For never, never wicked man was wise. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Wickedness may prosper for a while. (Quote by - Sir Roger L'Estrange)
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
Wickedness may well b compared to a bottomless pit, into which it is easier to keep one's self from falling, then, being fallen, to give one's self any stay from falling infinitely. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. (Quote by - Confucius)
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! (Quote by - Statius)
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. (Quote by - Syrus)
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. (Quote by - Gideon Wurdz)
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. (Quote by - Anna Jameson)
No man ever became very wicked all at once. (Quote by - Juvenal)
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. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. (Quote by - Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont)
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. (Quote by - John Tillotson)
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Wickedness is its own punishment. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! (Quote by - Statius)
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. (Quote by - Herman Melville )
God bears with the wicked, but not forever. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. (Quote by - A. J. P. Taylor)
Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. (Quote by - Bob Riley)
Wickedness resides in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated. (Quote by - Cicero)
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. (Quote by - Bible)
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. (Quote by - Livy)
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. (Quote by - John Dryden)
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Few are so wicked as to take delight in crimes unprofitable. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Peace and wickedness are far asunder. (Quote by - Benjamin Stillingfleet)
My soul has been so vexed within me for the wickedness of some of this Colony that I have been strongly tempted to leave it altogether. (Quote by - Samuel Marsden)
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. (Quote by - Bible)
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. (Quote by - Jennifer Beals)
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed. (Quote by - Camilla P. Bowles)
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever. (Quote by - Stijn Streuvels)
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. (Quote by - Lydia M. Child)
Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. (Quote by - Cicero)
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? (Quote by - John Tillotson)
No wickedness has any ground of reason. (Quote by - Titus Livy)
'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
You may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked. (Quote by - John Wesley)
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. (Quote by - James Madison)
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
