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Wickedness Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1994). “Sophocles: Fragments”, Loeb Classical Library

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2137, Delphi Classics

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.7965, Delphi Classics

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.47

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

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow