Wickedness Quotes - Page 10

• Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted, words are enchanted, the honest and brave make it safely through to the last page and the baddies either have to give up their wickedness for ever and ever, no going back, or get ruthlessly written out of the story, which they hardly ever survive. Also in fairy stories there are hardly any of those half-good half-bad people that crop up so constantly in real life and are so difficult to believe in.

  Hilary McKay

  Giving Up, Real, Believe

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• Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

  Anna Sewell

  Motivational, Ignorance, Mean

  Anna Sewell (2013). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

  Margaret Mahy

  Two, People, Suffering

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• ...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sorrow, Comfort, Bears

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.496, e-artnow

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• I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Perfect, Mind, Wicked

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “John Stuart Mill: Life, Life Lessons & Achievements: Childhood and Early Education, Moral Influences in Early Youth, Youthful Propagandism, Completion of the "System of Logic", Publication of the "Principles of Political Economy", Parliamentary Life”, p.25, Madison & Adams

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• The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Heart, Way

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• In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Voice, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

  William Hazlitt

  Evil, Littles, Submit

  "Collected Works Of William Hazlitt".

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• It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Lying, Evil

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2006). “Wisdom and Destiny”, p.343, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Success, Men, Evil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.1707, e-artnow

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• The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Known

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Degrees, Reason

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.53

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• No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Learning, Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau, Linda Corrente (1984). “Henry David Thoreau's Walden”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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• Meekness is the mask of malice.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Evil, Mask, Meekness

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Distance, Journey

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.460

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• The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Loss, Evil

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• Malice often takes the garb of truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Evil, Malice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2137, Delphi Classics

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• Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

  Jane Austen

  Folly

  1816 Emma, ch.26.

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• We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Evil, Desire, Harness

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hate, Love You, Evil

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

  Emma Goldman

  Kings, Names, Weakness

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Curiosity, Crime

  Robert Browning, Ian Jack, Margaret Smith, Rowena Fowler (2004). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”, p.122, Oxford University Press

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• Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Doe

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Brotherhood, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.32, 谷月社

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• God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

  Ginger Baker

  God, Pain, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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