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Wicked Quotes - Page 5

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens ...”, Harcourt

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

Aesop, Sir Roger L'Estrange (1708). “Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected”, p.324

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4294, Delphi Classics

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.200

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.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.125

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.172, Lulu.com

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.9, Macmillan

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Colloquia Mensalia ch. 2 (1566) (translation by Henry Bell)

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

"Carmina", I. 35. 34, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 239-41, 1922.