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Wickedness Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
- The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends…
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
More Wickedness Quotes
- For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In… — Alfred the Great
- There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. — Francis Beaumont
- As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done… — Oscar Wilde
- This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time,… — Origen
- Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away. — Arthur Helps
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine
- To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot
- It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison