Quotes About Wicked

In his eyes Hobbes, who had savaged the Church in Leviathan (1651), was unambiguously wicked, and excluding him was a pleasure. He told his friend Thomas Tyers that he had 'scorned' to quote Hobbes 'because I did not like his principles'.6 Among the texts he did cite, however, was John Bramhall's 1658 Castigations of Mr Hobbes, a book now known, if at all, for having been praised by T. S. Eliot. For

Awaken me, lord, from the dream of despair, and let me describe my sin. I would not fall into the bewilderment to which your name invited me. I established a court, and I fell asleep under a crown, and I dreamed I could rule the wicked. Awaken me to the homeland of my heart where you are worshipped forever. Awaken me to the mercy of the breath which you breathe into me.

Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?

Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.

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: we play at being because we are liars from the moment we're born

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

Even the most wicked have a family that loves them.

We found a table. Nora said: She's pretty. If you like them like that. She grinned at me. You got types? Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. And how about the red-head you wandered off with at Quinns' last night? That's silly, I said. She just wanted to show me some French etchings.

Living thing, does Entropy, my wicked Aunt, notice our joint conspiracy? Not yet, I think, for you are yet too small. Your puny struggle against her tide is mere fluttering in a great wind. And she thinks I am still her ally.

just thoroughgoingly nasty and sick.

But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has 'Vanity Fair' for a title, and that Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam

Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd when others are more wicked; not being the worst stands in some rank of praise.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Los pergaminos Normas y Proverbios Los malvados de corazón probablemente sabrán algo

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

You don't think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?

His mouth curls into a smile. His eyes shine with wicked intent. "Look at them all, your subjects. A shame not a one knows who their true ruler is.

As a child, Wren read lots of fairy tales. That's why, when the monsters came, she knew it was because she had been wicked.

Wicked girl. Yet you let your sister take the brunt of my ire. That wasn't very nice, was it?

You don't think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?

It's the kind of thing you like. The wicked are slain, with swords no less. Vengeance is had. Boldness is rewarded. But what about all those girls, all those obedient girls who trusted and loved and wed and died? Weren't they bold, too?

It's genius," he says, "but definitely evil genius.