Wickedness Quotes - Page 2

• Wickedness is weakness.

  John Milton

  Weakness

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

  Robert Hunter

  Pride, Light, Grace

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• There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

  Herman Melville

  Purple, Devil, Democracy

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.310, Herman Melville

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• Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

  John Tillotson

  Kind, Distraction, Chosen

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.184

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• When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Christian, Grieving

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

  David Brainerd

  Heart, Heaven, Body

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.63

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• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  Stephen Fry

  Garden, Tree, Taste

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• The world loves a spice of wickedness.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Spices, World

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.70

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• Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

  St. Jerome

  Evil, Venom, Malice

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• As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, People, Wicked

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Time, Life Is Short

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• Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Wicked, Causes, Helping

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.455, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Law, Evil

  Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy bk. 1, ch. 3 (written 1513 - 1517) (translation by Allan Gilbert)

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• In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fear, Politics, Politician

  'Table Talk' (1835) 5 October 1830

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• The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Clever, Wicked

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• The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.7

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• The sun also shines on the wicked.

  Seneca the Elder

  Shine On, Shining, Wicked

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• Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

  Lucretius

  Evil, Deeds, Anti Religious

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

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• In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Peace, Ubuntu, Evil

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.72

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• We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

  John Dryden

  Wicked, Misery, Calamity

  Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.153

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• Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

  Laurence Sterne

  Together, Literature, World

  Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.200

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• We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.

  Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

  Deeds, Sin, Committed

  "Royal couple to acknowledge 'sins'". www.cnn.com. April 7, 2005.

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• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Wicked, Literature

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

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• We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  People, Deception, Knavery

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• There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

  Alec Guinness

  Done, Littles, Planets

  Alec Guinness (1998). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Penguin Mass Market

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