Comparison Quote by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

— George Sand

Wickedness is weakness.

— Anonymous

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

— Anonymous

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

— Samuel Johnson

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

— Michel de Montaigne

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

— Anonymous

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

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God…

— John Milton

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by…

— William Hazlitt

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

— Plutarch