Wicked Quotes - Page 16

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Many a lash in the dark doth con science give the wicked.

The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.