Wicked Quotes - Page 18

• We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Revenge, Kindness, Self

  20 Copy quote

• Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Sunday, Men

  7 Copy quote

• I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Men, Giving

  8 Copy quote

• Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kindness, Heart, Character

  4 Copy quote

• Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Opportunity, Selfishness, Done

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Forget Everything, Childhood

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.141

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

  Martin Luther

  War, Tyrants

  4 Copy quote

• It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

  Edith Wharton

  Wrong Person, Persons

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4119, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

  Juvenal

  Ravens, Innocent, Dove

  4 Copy quote

• No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wicked Man, Knows

  17 Copy quote

• Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

  Aristotle

  Men, Good Man, Wicked Man

  10 Copy quote

• Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.

  Brady Udall

  Imagination, Inspired, Amanda

  5 Copy quote

• ...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

  John D. MacDonald

  Hurt, Coffee, People

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 1-3: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.241, Random House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

  David Sedaris

  Champion, And Love, Peril

  7 Copy quote

• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House”, p.251, Open Road Media

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Garden

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.4

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

  Josh Billings

  World, Fool, Trouble

  5 Copy quote

• You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mean, Temptation, Atheism

  7 Copy quote

• I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

  Denis Diderot

  Beautiful, Character, Eye

  6 Copy quote

• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wise, Children, Mean

  64 Copy quote

• In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Average, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Deception, Promise, Guarantees

  4 Copy quote

• Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Change, Games

  5 Copy quote

• What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

  Moliere

  Men, Aristocracy, Lord

  5 Copy quote