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Quotes About Wicked

Bullying. In BDSM we get to act out from parts of ourselves that could not be described as nice: the bully, the villain, the inquisitor, the brute, the betrayer. Wicked, wicked, wicked. And popular. Check out mainstream movies, or fiction from best-sellers to classical mythology, for verification that everybody adores a really good villain. Those bad guys are big. Big enough to carry all the world's ills, and create all the pain and trouble a hungry bottom could want to suffer.
~ Dossie Easton
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
~ Jill Paton Walsh
12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his Brother (presents the prototype of evil). And wherefore slew he him? (Cain was not a murderer because he killed his Brother, but killed his Brother because he was a murderer.) Because his own works were evil, and his Brother's Righteous (points directly to the Cross; the rejection of God's Way [the Cross], which Cain did, is labeled by the Holy Spirit as "evil"; Abel accepted the Cross [Gen., Chpt. 4]).
~ Jimmy Swaggart
How many wicked intentions climb aboard a pure and innocent phrase, after it is already on its way! It is enough to make one suspect that lying is, many a time, as involuntary as breathing.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
She couldn't help but laugh at his wicked, mock-schoolboy eagerness. "You, Mr. Monkton-Coombes, are a shocking flirt." He gave her a wounded look. "Nonsense! I'm a very good flirt, some would even say excellent, though modesty prevents me from saying so.
~ Anne Gracie
Stanford, Larry. Wicked Newport: Sordid Stories from the City by the Sea. Charleston,
~ Annejet van der Zijl
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
~ Victor Hugo
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
~ Haile Selassie
I've tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of 'ADHD,' which usually earns me nothing but ignorant rage in return.
~ Peter Hitchens
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
~ Buddha
There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.
~ John Keegan
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
~ James Thurber
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
~ David Wilkerson
I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.
~ Sigourney Weaver
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
~ Queen Christina
One of the secretaries at Atlantic Records caught me pinching one of the other secretaries on the butt one morning. She said, 'My, you sure are wicked.'
~ Wilson Pickett
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
~ Luc de Clapiers
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!
~ Ariana Grande
I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'
~ Charlotte Rampling
Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
~ Ed Sheeran
There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.
~ John Garfield
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg