Wicked Quotes
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
Saint Patrick -
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
William Shakespeare -
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.
H. L. Mencken -
I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.
William Kidd -
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
Antisthenes -
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri -
Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.
Sabrina Jeffries
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If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
Saint Augustine -
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
Isaac Watts -
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 -
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
Seneca the Younger -
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
Willa Cather
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
Oscar Wilde -
We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.
R. C. Sproul, Jr. -
Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
Plato -
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
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 -
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway
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A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
William Shakespeare -
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
William Kingdon Clifford -
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
William Shakespeare -
Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.
William Dean Howells