Wickedness Quotes

256 Wickedness quotes by 197 unique authors

Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted,… — Hilary McKay
Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to… — Anna Sewell
Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just… — Virginia Woolf
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. — Jane Austen
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. — George MacDonald
If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness — Kathleen Winsor
The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that… — John Stuart Mill
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid… — Margaret Mahy
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple… — William Shakespeare
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and… — Jane Austen
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible… — Jane Austen
In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against… — Grant Morrison
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark… — Geoffrey Chaucer
Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them? — Stephen Schwartz
When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness”.… — John Waters
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and… — John Calvin
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. — Benjamin Franklin
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence. — John of Kronstadt
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle… — Anna Brownell Jameson
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is… — Thomas Paine

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