Wicked Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

  Gregory Maguire

  Mean, Shoes, Let It Go

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• Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Thinking, Toads

  Stephen Crane, “Think As I Think”

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• Wicked companions invite us to hell.

  Henry Fielding

  Hell, Companion, Invites

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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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• I used to be a wicked disco guy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Guy, Used, Disco

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

  William Shakespeare

  Charity, Beast, Wit

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.100, Classic Books Company

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• The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.

  Dorothy Parker

  Humorous, Home, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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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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• 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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• There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Mad, Afternoon

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• God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, Enemy

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1662, e-artnow

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• We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Done, Goodness, Retribution

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Weakness, World, Ruined

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• Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Heart, Praying

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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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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• He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear.

  Jean Racine

  God, Secret, Holy

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• It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  World, Fool, Trouble

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “JANE OF LANTERN HILL (Children’s Book Classic): Including the Memoirs of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.124, e-artnow

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• The sun shines even on the wicked.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Shining, Sun

  "De Beneficiis", III. 25, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 235-36, 1922.

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• If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

  Winston Churchill

  Action, Gang, Worst

  "You Do Your Worst - And We Will Do Our Best". Winston Churchill's speech, winstonchurchill.org. July 14, 1941.

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• A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Would Be, Earth, Destruction

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.116

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• There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Thinking, Desire, World

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Pain, Heart, Long

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