Wicked Quotes

• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Envy, Way

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• I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Evil, Guilt

  Jonathan Swift (1850). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.307

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• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrisy, Would Be, Importance Of Being Earnest

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2

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• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Literature, Criminal Mind

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• It's just life, so keep dancing through.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Dancing, Wicked The Musical, Elphaba

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• I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Friendship, People, Broadway

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• To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Heart, Wish, Wounds

  David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books

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• A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Desire, Unjust

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Men, Scorpions

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• If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

  Horace Mann

  Reality, Men, Evil

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.215

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• Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

  Josh Billings

  God, People, Sin

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Men, Example, Capacity

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.221, CUP Archive

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• The sun also shines on the wicked.

  Seneca the Elder

  Shine On, Shining, Sun

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• One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

  Gregory Maguire

  Struggle, Choices, Devil

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.250, Hachette UK

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• I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

  Eva Longoria

  Men, Being A Woman, Sexiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

  Rose Macaulay

  Philosophy, Women, Talking

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• To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Crime, Repentance, Virtuous

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 665), 1922.

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• A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Envy, Gossip

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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• And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

  Stephen Schwartz

  Lonely, Goodness, Knows

  Song: No One Mourns The Wicked

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• There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

  John Keegan

  People, World, Force

  "John Keegan: Soldiers and Pacifists Share the Same Qualities" by Russ Wellen, fpif.org. February 13, 2013.

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• The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

  Jeremiah

  Heart, Deceit, Follow Your Heart

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• No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

  Juvenal

  Character, Human Nature

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