Quotes with wicked

  • No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
  • They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.

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  • Ernest Hemingway All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Oscar Wilde As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Vauvenargues Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Horace You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Samuel Johnson A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bjork His wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex
    His fingers focus on her
    Her touches
    He's Venus as a Boy!
    Songs Venus as a Boy, from the CD single Venus as a Boy
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Antisthenes I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Ajay Naidu I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Richard Dawkins I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Alexandre Dumas père I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Brigham Young Is there war in our religion? No; neither war nor bloodshed. Yet our enemies cry out bloodshed, and oh, what dreadful men these Mormons are, and those Danites! how they slay and kill! Such is all nonsense and folly in the extreme. The wicked slay the wicked, and they will lay it on the Saints.
    Danites Journal of Discourses, 12:30 (Apr. 7 1867)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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