Wicked Quotes - Page 4

• I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

  Eva Longoria

  Men, Being A Woman, Sexiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Husband, Two, Soul

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Love You, Eye

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Thinking, Debt

  "When darkness met light" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2000.

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• There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Poison, Credit

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

  Chanakya

  Wife, House, False Friends

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• So what about that key?" I asked. "I knew you'd be asking me about it sooner or later." He pulled the cord out from underneath his shirt and dangled the key in front of me. "What do you want for it?" I sneered. "Five dollars?" "I don't want money," he said with a wicked grin. "What does it go to?" "A kiss will unlock more than this key will," he whispered in my ear.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Kissing, Keys, Doe

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• Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.

  Susan Cooper

  Uncles, Hero, Fighting

  Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Clever, Men, Brain

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.195

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• Happy is what happens when all your dreams come true.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Dream, Happens, Dreams Come True

  David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books

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• Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

  Anthony Burgess

  Pain, Sleep, Forever

  "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.

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• I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Men, White

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.423, Penguin

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• Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Clever, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.509, Tor Science Fiction

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• I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Gentleman, Nastiness

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• It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

  Stevie Smith

  Fall, Water, Hatred

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hot, Witch, Bones

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• There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because you're so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. I've so often wondered-are you ticklish, my lord?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fire, Shoes, Tears

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• Did they look like anyone we know? For example… a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us Marcie Millar

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Giving, Example, Looks

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

  Julia Quinn

  Passion, Divine

  Julia Quinn (2004). “When he was wicked”

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• If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with tits.

  Richard Kadrey

  Kids, Clothes, Would Be

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• Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, People, Giving

  1895 March banks to Proserpine. Candida, act 2.

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• Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Reflection, Views, Europe

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• So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

  Steve Martin

  Details, Standing Out, Fitting

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Knowing, Easy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.20, e-artnow

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• You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

  Gunter Grass

  Genius, Vain, Should

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