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Quotes About Wicked

The wicked stepmother, which is the ego, can put the Sleeping Beauty or Christ within us to sleep, but she can never destroy it. What is created by God is indestructible.
~ Marianne Williamson
We play the part of heroes because we're cowards, the part of saints because we're wicked: we play the killer's role because we're dying to murder our fellow man: we play at being because we're liars from the moment we're born. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
~ Aristotle
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
No one's life has to be perfect... Don't put so much pressure on yourself... Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me. Of course it's not!
~ Sophie Kinsella
ANTIGONE: Nevertheless, there are honors due all the dead. CREON: But not the same for the wicked as for the just. ANTIGONE: Ah Creon, Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked? CREON: An enemy is an enemy, even dead. ANTIGONE: It is may nature to join in love, not hate.
~ Sophocles
The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.
~ Aniruddha Sastikar
Villainy had a sense of wicked superiority about it and they had a sneaking feeling that sometimes old Robin was a bit too good to be true. Perhaps I already had a vague sense that courting and, what's more, achieving popularity was not a gift I possessed
~ John Osborne
This is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
~ John Piper
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
~ John Ruskin
The mysterious providence which permits the righteous to suffer persecution at the hand of the wicked, has been a cause of great perplexity to many who are weak in faith.
~ Ellen G. White
Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering.
~ baxter richard ii
Thus her long down-trodden imagination rose and took vengeance, even through those senses which she had thought to subordinate to her wicked will.
~ George MacDonald
Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time, and at certain moments a very important question.
~ George Orwell
Take trains, for instance. He was no longer a child, and it wasn't anything mechanical about them that attracted him. If he had a preference for night trains, it was because he sensed in them something strange, almost wicked
~ Georges Simenon
Oh, Philippe, thou are a rogue. So I have been told. Presumably because I am innocent of the slightest indiscretion. Curious. No one dubs you rogue who so fully merit the title. But I, whose reputation is spotless, am necessarily a wicked one and a deceiver. I shall write a sonnet on the subject. Ah, no! begged Saint-Dantin in alarm. Your sonnets are vile, Philippe! So let us have no more verse from you, I pray!
~ Georgette Heyer
This is my cousin, by the way. I dare say you know of him. He is very wicked and kills people in duels. Vidal, this is Frederick.
~ Georgette Heyer
I may be a little fool,' retorted Miss Challoner, plucking up spirit, 'but at least I meant it for the best. While as for you, my lord, you meant nothing but wicked mischief right from the start.
~ Georgette Heyer
I was in 'Grease' on Broadway, toured with 'Wicked,' was off Broadway a couple of times and have been a part of numerous readings and workshops.
~ Helene Yorke
The tourmaline eyes were both grave and wicked, and Violet felt herself blushing.
~ Sarah Monette
Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him. —Psalm 32:10
~ Sarah Young
Theo Fitzgerald," she said, still trying to shake off the night's uninvited visitor. "I mean, really!" The shake turned into yet another shiver, the sort usually inspired by a particularly wicked mouthful of very rich, supersmooth, utterly sinful ice cream.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
I have always had a weakness for footnotes. For me a clever or a wicked footnote has redeemed many a text.
~ Saul Bellow
caffeine buzz liquid thrill, chills slowly going down kinda wicked 'n edgy like legs spread wide in razor wrapped dreams, like looking glass lust on lsd, like wigged out flesh of lightening fear, like fried out bits of lovers angst, i lust at you, i live for you, i want you here w/ me
~ Scott C. Holstad