Wickedness Quotes
256 quotes by 197 authors
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
— Aristotle
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There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
— Francis Beaumont
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One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
— George Carlin
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
— John Jay Chapman
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The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result…
— C.S. Lewis
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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When…
— Lorrie Moore
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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth.…
— Tom DeLay
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in…
— Oscar Wilde
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
— A J P Taylor
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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
— Lydia M. Child
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
— Livy
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
— Lucretius
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
— Seneca the Elder
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The world loves a spice of wickedness.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to…
— Origen
Who Wrote These Wickedness Quotes
197 authors contributed a total of 256 Wickedness Quotes, led by these top contributors: