Wickedness Quotes - Page 12

• Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

  Beverley Nichols

  Cat, Expression, House

  Beverley Nichols (1960). “Cats' A. B. C.”

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• I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Heart, Holmes, Heard

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.180, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Two, Events, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.3, e-artnow

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• Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

  Isaac Barrow

  Slander, Complication

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• Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Religious, Faith Religion

  Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

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• ...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Baby, Children, Whales

  Alice Von Hildebrand (2002). “The Privilege of Being a Woman”, Ignatius Press

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• The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

  Thomas Paine

  Race, Atheism, Misery

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.190

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• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

  T. S. Eliot

  Evil, Way, Paradoxical

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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• Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

  Thomas Sprat

  Forever, Charming, Goodness

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• Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

  Lydia M. Child

  People, Half, Making People Happy

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• I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But, alas, since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of- war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.

  Herman Melville

  War, Men, Valleys

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• No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Men, Evil

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• It is only when we possess ourselves that we can give ourselves to others. If what we possess feels wrong, bad, or wicked, then we try not only to hide it from others, but we also try to hide it from ourselves.

  Jack Dominian

  Evil, Giving, Wicked

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• Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

  Sophocles

  Wish To Die, Evil, Worst

  "Electra". Play by Sophocles, Line 1007. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.

  Matthew Polly

  Hurt, Evil, Clubs

  Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.252, Penguin

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• Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiration, Men, Air

  1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One cannot break God's commandments and be happy. We should remember the scripture, "Wickedness never was happiness"

  W. Eugene Hansen

  Life, Father, Real

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• I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

  Solomon

  Law, Saws, Sun

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• Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

  Thomas Paine

  Age Of Reason, Sincerely, Humankind

  Thomas Paine (1934). “The Works of Thomas Paine: His Epoch-making Writings in Religion, Government, Human Rights and International Relations”, New York : .H. Wise

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• The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Evil, Religion

  "Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography".

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• [Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Son, Betrayed, Demon

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• Few men are wantonly wicked.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Wicked

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.183, Vintage

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• One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Hate, May

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.

  Saadi

  Dog, Wicked, Mouths

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• All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

  George Orwell

  Law, Profound, Boyhood

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

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