Wicked Quotes - Page 37

• Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  People, Giving, Feelings

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• Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Needs

  Giacomo Leopardi (1978). “Essays, Dialogues, and Thoughts (Operette Morali and Pensieri) of Giacomo Leopardi”

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• Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights.

  Marina Warner

  Night, Psychology, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

  Rhys Darby

  Character, Mean, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Evil, Lines, Sides

  "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• You know, he [Alan Rickman] played these very reserved, sometimes-cold, sometimes-threatening characters on the screen, but the reality of the man was incredible warmth and humor and generosity and wicked fun.

  Helen Mirren

  Fun, Character, Reality

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.

  Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

  Roles, Broadway, Excited

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I just want to be powerful and in charge, or crazy and in charge. Say anything I want, and still know everybody loves you. Or, you know, like Jessica Lange. She's not old-looking, but she's older and she's working on that America Horror stuff. Wicked.

  Jackee Harry

  Powerful, Crazy, Love You

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I loved WICKED. I wish there were a part I could play in it.

  Hugh Panaro

  Play, Wish

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• Each situation is different... Each situation, I'm a different person I guess. He's present; the actors are present; and you just work in that moment, trying to flush it out. We have history from Assassins and Wicked, but it's always new beginnings between us. You start off fresh and that's what I like and respect about him.

  Kendra Kassebaum

  New Beginnings, Trying, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

  Florence King

  Kings, Queens, Cancer

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.127, Macmillan

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• An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

  Epicurus

  Men, Blessing, Ideas

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• If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

  Venerable Bede

  Godly, Thoughtful, People

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• In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Good Life, Short Life, Real

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• Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked; in the sublimity and truth of the doctrines of Christ, in a revelation of this doctrine by a special divine inspiration for the salvation of the human race.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Believe, Inspiration, Race

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• The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Evil, Water

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• The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Charles Grandison Finney (1837). “Lectures to Professing Christians”, p.10

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• The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Driven

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1079, Barbour Publishing

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• The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Men, Practice

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.354, Ravenio Books

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• [Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Years, Mind

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• But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Practice, Names

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• God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.

  Max Anders

  Blessing, People, Able

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• The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hands, Moments, Command

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• Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Thank God, Littles

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.197, Wildside Press LLC

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• The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.

  Pope Gregory I

  Fire, Suffering, Barns

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