Wickedness Quotes · Page 9

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

— Alphonsus Liguori

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

— Marcus Aurelius

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word…

— Camilla P Bowles

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

— Plutarch

Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of…

— Bible

Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest…

— Herrick Johnson

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of…

— Marion Bailey

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half…

— Thomas Paine

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,…

— William Shakespeare

Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter…

— Thomas Paine

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,…

— Lord Chesterfield

True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through…

— Ezra Taft Benson

When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy…

— John Waters

The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of…

— Robert Southey

“A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power…

— Marcus Aurelius

“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

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

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

— Henry James

“Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might…

— Jean Elson

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time,…

— Origen

“I had not then learned the measure of “man’s inhumanity to man,” nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go…

— Solomon Northup

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.

— Rick Scarborough

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down…

— Gregory Maguire

“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live…

— John Connolly

“Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying…

— Judith Ivory

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

“To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is…

— Charles Baudelaire

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

— R. C. Sproul

“If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience…

— Toba Beta

“and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the…

— Daniel Defoe

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

— Marcus Eremita

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Laurence Sterne