Wickedness Quotes
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
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.
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?
The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?
Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.
If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North
He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
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.
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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.
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
