Quotes About Wicked

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

There is no poet, black or otherwise, writing with as much wicked candor and passion." Terrance Hayes on Wanda Coleman

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM. But regard must be had to this, after what sort each man fills his seat; for not the seat makes the Priest, but the Priest the seat; the place does not consecrate the man, but the man the place. A wicked Priest derives guilt and not honour from his Priesthood.

like all wicked people he could do things which defied the means of honest men, for evil is always more easily managed than virtue.)

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

What a world, what a world. Who would have thought that. some little girl like you could. destroy my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the West

Desist!' cried the wicked Prince Tintac Ping Foo in a sizzling frenzy. 'I came here to buy a magic carpet! One that flies! Show me what you have!

Grant smiled-slowly, deliberately. Insolently? Gennie wasn't sure, but her heart rose to her throat and stuck there. However he smiled, whatever his intent, it added a wicked, irresistible charm to his face. She thought it was a smile a barbarian might have given his woman before he tossed her over his shoulder and took her into some dark cave.

Plantation justice was mean and constant but the world was indiscriminate. Out in the world, the wicked escaped comeuppance and the decent stood in their stead at the whipping tree. Tennessee's disasters were the fruit of indifferent nature, without connection to the crimes of the homesteaders. To how the Cherokee had lived their lives.

She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no atmosphere.

As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, some weather-beaten, ragged old rooks' nests, burdening their higher branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.

towards them. The other two froze and did the same. Harris would never forget the horror he felt under the gaze of the three pairs of sharp, wicked-looking eyes. It wasn't