Wicked Quotes

• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Literature, Criminal Mind

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Friendship, People, Broadway

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• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrisy, Would Be, Importance Of Being Earnest

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2

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• I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Men, Example, Capacity

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.221, CUP Archive

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• I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Evil, Guilt

  Jonathan Swift (1850). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.307

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• It's just life, so keep dancing through.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Dancing, Wicked The Musical, Elphaba

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• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Envy, Way

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• It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Flames, Mind

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• A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Desire, Unjust

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

  Epictetus

  Believe, Philosophical, Desire

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• None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  True Love, People, Realizing

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• Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Self, Excuse, Shallow

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• No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

  Juvenal

  Character, Human Nature

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• 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

  Inspirational, Men, Scorpions

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• To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Envy, Gossip

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Guilt, World

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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• Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Trying, Defying Gravity, Knows

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• The sun also shines on the wicked.

  Seneca the Elder

  Shine On, Shining, Sun

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• Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

  Jane Smiley

  Lying, Good Intentions, Delusion

  Jane Smiley (2010). “Duplicate Keys”, p.290, Anchor

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• Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

  Ray Comfort

  Law, Would Be, Imagine

  Ray Comfort (2013). “God Speaks: Finding Hope in the Midst of Hopelessness”, p.23, Baker Books

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• The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Atheist, Practice, Support

  "On the Nature of the Gods". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Women, Rights

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• Those who don't try never look foolish.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Trying, Looks, Foolish

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