Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.” — Nike Thaddeus Copy Share Image
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying… — Judith Ivory Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch… — Saadi Copy Share Image
It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In… — King Alfred Copy Share Image
“He took another deep breath as she laughed, and the vibrations rippled through her body into his. 'I could stay here forever,'he… — Caroline Linden Copy Share Image
Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? — Horace Copy Share Image
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image