Wicked Quotes - Page 21

• When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

  Ron Chernow

  America, People, News

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• "State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Poison, Drink

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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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• The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Challenges, Bars

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.164, Image

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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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• And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely.

  Melissa Marr

  Lovely

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• We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

  Orson Scott Card

  Promise, Gingerbread, Alive

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• Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.

  Philip K. Dick

  Past, Littles, Moments

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Now Wait for Last Year”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dog, Strong, Feet

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.152, GENERAL PRESS

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• In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Simple, People, Assuming

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.9, Macmillan

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

  John Piper

  Night, Apples, Pie

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, World, Facts

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.127, Mondial

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• A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Writing, Careers

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

  Thomas Watson

  Sunset, Godly, Night

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• There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat

  Haile Selassie

  Moving, People, Decision

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• Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

  Arcangela Tarabotti

  Men, Speak, Guilty Conscience

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• The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s
  wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.
  Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

  Marty Neumeier

  Music, Past, Play

  Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.27, Peachpit Press

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• Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true. We do not know that God is not as cruel as a Spanish inquisitor. Suppose, then, He is! If, after Death, we wicked ones were shovelled into a furnace of fire- we should have to burn. There would be no redress. It would simply be the Divine Order of things. It is outrageous that we should be so helpless and so dependent on any one- even God.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Fire, Divine Order, Should Have

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• The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in!

  Fábio Moon

  Doors, Issues, Seductive

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• Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Godly, Men, Wonder

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.172, Lulu.com

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• I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.

  Roger Sherman

  Believe, Taken, Punishment

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• If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of
  Heaven first.

  Spider Robinson

  Giving, Heaven, Firsts

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• This miserable way
  is taken by the sorry souls of those
  who lived without disgrace and without praise.
  They now commingle with the coward angels,
  the company of those who were not rebels
  nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
  The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,
  have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them -
  even the wicked cannot glory in them.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sorry, Taken, Angel

  Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”

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