Wicked Quotes - Page 40

• But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

  Vivien Leigh

  Morning, Stupid, Responsibility

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• Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

  Horace

  Riches, Increase, Satisfied

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• The love of wicked men converts to fear;
  That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
  To worthy danger and deserved death.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hate, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.423, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.

  George Herbert

  Wicked Things

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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• What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?
  Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,
  With matchless impudence they style a wife,
  The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;
  A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,
  A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;
  Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,
  But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Night, Evil

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.221

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• It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Men, Self

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• All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  War, Thinking, People

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• Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Mind, Infamous, Shame

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• The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.

  Edward Thomson

  Heart, Men, Example

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• [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Religious, Sex, Judging

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• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Escaping, Effort

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• Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.

  Chanakya

  Mistake, People, Political

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• How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.

  Chanakya

  Hurt, Giving Up, Drink Milk

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• Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.

  Bill Vaughan

  Struggle, Race, Dust

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• A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.

  George Herbert

  Masters

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.297

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• The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.

  Robert Southey

  Successful, Men, Soul

  Robert Southey (1832). “On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will”, p.235

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• Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

  Ben Jonson

  Death, Men, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.54

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• Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Democracy, Defeat, Patronage

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1978). “The papers: The chief of staff”

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• By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

  Sallust

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• It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Charity, Way

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.426

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• It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

  Edmund Burke

  Rivals, Ruins, Politician

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.15

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• Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

  Lucretius

  Religious, Action

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• Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Wicked Things, Art Is

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• Lord, for the erring thought
  Not unto evil wrought:
  Lord, for the wicked will
  Betrayed, and baffled still:
  For the heart from itself kept,
  Our thanksgiving accept.
  For ignorant hopes that were
  Broken to our blind prayer:
  For pain, death, sorrow, sent
  Unto our chastisement:
  For all loss of seeming good,
  Quicken our gratitude.

  William Dean Howells

  Gratitude, Prayer, Pain

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.9085, Delphi Classics

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• Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Temptation, Virtuous, Ifs

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