Wicked Quotes - Page 21

• Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Depressing, People

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• My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.

  Rupert Grint

  Flying Cars, Film, My Favorite

  "The Hogwarts Trio Speaks". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 14, 2002.

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• If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

  Paul Krugman

  Evil, Reborn, Economist

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• Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Children, Book

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• Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

  Ambrose

  Riches, Virtue, Aids

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• There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Wish, Doe, Mary

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• Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Sweet, Powerful

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• They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

  Dean Koontz

  Jobs, Ideas, Guy

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• She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Brunette, Type, Darling

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “Novels”, Alfred A. Knopf

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

  Winston Churchill

  Weakness, Malice, Virtuous

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.

  Ursula Vernon

  Once Upon A Time, Littles, Woods

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• In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?" "No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Fine, Known

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.791, Delacorte Press

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• Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Tears, Dexterity

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Revenge, May, Natural

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.540, Delphi Classics

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• I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away... and the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Wise, Believe

  "When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales".

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• It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

  Michael Chabon

  Mistake, Night, Gossip

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• For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Children, Justice

  "The Coloured Lands". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1938.

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• And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

  Gregory Maguire

  Gone, Stories, Reputation

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• And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

  Jane Austen

  Sick, Perfection, Amusement

  Letter to Fanny Knight, 23 March 1817, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (1952)

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• The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Men, Honor

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Annotated)”, p.17, Sigmund Freud

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• One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

  Leo Tolstoy

  World, This World, Cunning

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.75, Vintage

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• I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

  Emily Bronte

  I Love Him, Men, Fire

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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• And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more

  Arthur Machen

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge

  John le Carre

  Men, Eight, Feet

  "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• “This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you,” he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like - not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And so much of it!

  David Sedaris

  Hurt, Ideas, Smell

  "Old Faithful" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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