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Quotes About Wicked

It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
My soul's a tomb which, wicked cenobite, I wander in for all eternity; Nothing embellishes these odious walls.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I take the shield of faith and I quench every fiery dart that the wicked one brings against me (Ephesians 6:16).
~ Charles Capps
So Ah'm no evil, Ah'm just plain bad.
~ Charles Stross
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.
~ Toni Morrison
The Psalms draw a hard and fast distinction between the righteous and the wicked, something that is not appreciated in a period of religious syncretism.
~ Kevin Swanson
I am not your wicked witch," Alexandrine said. "Beg to differ there," Nikodemus said. "You sure as hell are." "I'm your sworn fiend," she returned. Between Xia's body and hers, she moved her hand over Xia's crotch. "But I'm his wicked witch." "Fuck, yes," Xia said.
~ Carolyn Jewel
Then my cell phone buzzes again. I can't quite get it out of my pocket because my arm is so bloody. Astley reaches down and pulls it out for me. "You're blushing," he says. "You just reached in my pocket. It's kind of intimate." He smiles a wicked smile and hands me the phone. "There is candy in here as well." "Skittles," I explain. "I like them.
~ Carrie Jones
The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.
~ George R.R. Martin
Older than sin and twice as mean
~ George R.R. Martin
you would sleep beneath a roof tonight, you must climb off your horses and cross the mud with me. The path of faith, we call it. Only the faithful may cross safely. The wicked are swallowed by the quicksands, or drowned when the tide comes rushing in. None of you are wicked, I hope? Even so, I would be careful where I set my feet. Walk only where I walk, and you shall reach the other side." The path of faith was a crooked one, Brienne could not help but note.
~ George R.R. Martin
There's villainous news abroad.
~ William Shakespeare
We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked.
~ James Thurber
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
~ Proverbs
'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology - His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good - you can leave His ethical teaching intact.
~ J. Gresham Machen
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?" —Tom Waits
~ Jack Ketchum
The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.
~ George Friedman
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
~ Oscar Wilde
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
~ T. S. Eliot
Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
~ Chanakya