Wickedness Quotes

The majority is wicked.

— Bias of Priene

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

— Euripides

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

— William Hazlitt

“Holy fear of God is to depart from evil.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Wickedness is its own punishment.

— Francis Quarles

“Wickedness is a wrong action.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

— Ariana Franklin

The world is increasing in wickedness.

— Ezra Taft Benson

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.

— Matthew Polly

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

— Anonymous

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

— Samuel Johnson

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.”

— William Shakespeare

“To sow wickedness is to reap wrath of destruction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

— Mark Buchanan

“The belief in a super natural sources of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

— Joseph Conrad

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was…

— Thomas Carlyle

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Michel de Montaigne

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's…

— Orson Scott Card

“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The Lord will judge those who slander and harm the righteous, for He defends the cause of the oppressed.”

— Shaila Touchton

“We must always remember that apart from Him, we are fountains of wickedness. And that if we leave His embrace our face…

— Eric Gimour

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program…

— Jaron Lanier

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God…

— Joyce Meyer

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full…

— Philip Pullman

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once…

— Marquis de Sade

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use…

— Margaret Mahy

Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles…

— Herbert Hoover

Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating…

— Philip Roth

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The law of God is not to return evil for evil; indeed, if you try in this way to stamp out wickedness…

— Leo Tolstoy

“As a hedge against possible failure to prove adultery, this alleged “that for a period of time from 1901 and continuing thereafter…

— Jean Elson

It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of…

— Samuel Johnson

“If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing…

— Jean Elson

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become…

— Swami Vivekananda

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly…

— Henry James

Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Are those paper clips?' I'd seen them in catalogs, but the pictures don't do them justice. They're beautiful, in an industrial sort…

— Franny Billingsley