Wicked Quotes - Page 13

• But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Writing, Dark, Tone

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• Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Long, Sometimes, Our Thoughts

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.327, A&C Black

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• I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

  Randall Terry

  Believe, President, Clinton

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• Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

  John Calvin

  Confused, Mad, Philosopher

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)”, p.81, Jazzybee Verlag

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• OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Struggle, Oblivion, Fame

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Wind, Snow, Storm

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• At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Kings, Believe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roger Ingpen, Walter Edwin Peck (1965). “Complete Works: Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck”

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• I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Tired, Men

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• When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

  John Calvin

  God, Giving, Judging

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• I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.

  David Heyman

  Kids, Naughty, Thinking

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• To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Succeed, Doe

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.135, Modern Library

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• IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Men, Numbers

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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• To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

  Moliere

  Scandal, Privacy, Sin

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• I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Law, Prison, Cholera

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• Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

  Elihu Root

  Animal, Men, Aggravation

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

  Chanakya

  Grief, Giving, Wife

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• Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same hell that had birthed her to life. In this moment of decision she condemned to death the one she would risk anything to save. To the night, Munroe whispered good-bye. Opened the floodgates to Gehenna-that place of the wicked, that place of the dead-and here in this deserted spot, she buried her soul.

  Taylor Stevens

  Block, Mean, Night

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• However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Past, There Is Hope

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.83, Editora Dracaena

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• Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Enemy, Lifetime, Lord

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• When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when they are young, while others drag on to extreme old age? Why are there those who are poor and those who are rich? Why do wicked men prosper and why are the just in need?' He heard a voice answering him, 'Antony, keep your attention on yourself; these things are according to the judgment of God, and it is not to your advantage to know anything about them.'

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Men, Voice

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• May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Kings, Children

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• ... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent; which is an evil to a wicked man, while to the good it is rest and freedom from evils. 'For death is rest to a man whose way is hidden' (Job 3:23 LXX). And so a good man does not suffer any loss from it.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Jobs, Loss

  John Cassian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian (Annotated Edition)”, p.346, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

  Chanakya

  Night, Religion, Forget

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• He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

  Chanakya

  Running, Wisdom, Men

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