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Quotes About Wicked

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
She taught them that every soul is a small reflection of God, and that it is wicked to murder because when a life is taken, we lose that unique revelation of God's nature.
~ Mary Doria Russell
But the wicked have a different head for numbers than most. Any bad they do will end up on the side of never-mind. What's done to them weighs double.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The right path leads to Elysium, the place of eternal happiness, but "the left-hand path torments / the wicked, leading down to Tartarus, path to doom" (Aeneid, Book 6, lines 631–32).
~ Bart D. Ehrman
The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while longer, making it possible for them still to praise him.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.
~ Stephen Sondheim
So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.
~ Steve Martin
One of the main differences between programs you develop in school and those you develop as a professional is that the design problems solved by school programs are rarely, if ever, wicked.
~ Steve McConnell
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
~ Gaston Leroux
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
~ Martin Buber
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
~ Antonio Banderas
M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short … there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.
~ Joseph de Maistre
an outsider it must have looked much of the time as if the wicked fist dominated the Israelites' lives. From the inside the witness of faith said that it did not:
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Gardeners are never wicked are they?' said Ruth. 'Obstinate and grumpy and wanting to be alone, but not wicked. Oh, look at that creeper! I've always loved October so much, haven't you? I can see why it's called the Month of the Angels.
~ Eva Ibbotson
The Lord is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
~ bible quotes ii
The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.
~ bible quotes iv
The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.
~ bible quotes vi
The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked in wrath.
~ bible quotes vii
The whole point of this book is that condemnation is not in His heart. As stated earlier, "God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked" (Ezek. 18:23).
~ Bill Johnson
I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.
~ Robert Vaughn
And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet.
~ Gregory Maguire
The small gesture of charity? Isn't that sort of beauty more beautiful than any other?" "And equally evanescent," says the Master, "for small charities cannot this wicked world amend. But perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
~ Gregory Maguire
And there the wicked old Witch stayed for a good long time. And did she ever come out? Not yet.
~ Gregory Maguire
What's the different between a shooting star and a falling house? One which is propitious grants delicious wishes, the other which is vicious squishes witches.
~ Gregory Maguire