Wicked Quotes - Page 9

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

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.

She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.

You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.