Wicked Quotes - Page 18

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

Howl has been very kind to me." And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie did to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed. "Do listen. He's not wicked at all!" There was a bit of a fizz from the grate at this, where Calcifer was watching with some interest. " He isn't!" Sophie said, to Calcifer as much as to Fanny.

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.