As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I just want to be powerful and in charge, or crazy and in charge. Say anything I want, and still know everybody… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are… — Arcangela Tarabotti Copy Share Image
When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too -… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with 'Wicked', and I'd love to play Nala in 'The Lion King'. Some of the songs from 'The Lion King'… — Oti Mabuse Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in;… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
He was wicked. It was better that he was out of my life. I knew that, logically. What I felt, though, deep,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Though the world is becoming more wicked, the youth of Christ's Church can become more righteous if they understand who they are,… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
[Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters,... advocates of the devil, race of vipers,… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Phonogram was explicitly about our world. It’s a fantasy which is happening around us all, unnoticed except for those who’ve fallen into… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
I grew up with these amazing shows, like 'Les Mis,' 'Phantom,' 'Joseph,' 'Wicked,' and if I ever had the chance to work… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It became known that I had a rather fertile imagination, when it came to private activities." She stared. "What sort of private… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance,… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a clown. But I think the seminal moment was when I was sixteen, and I auditioned… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty,… — Charles Lawrence Copy Share Image
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that… — Charles Taze Russell Copy Share Image
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
So what about that key?" I asked. "I knew you'd be asking me about it sooner or later." He pulled the cord… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image