Quotes with wicked

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  • Josh Billings It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Carole King It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
    And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well.
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Josh Billings Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Beth Grant My daughter's favorite musical is 'Wicked,' which she has seen hundreds of times - she even worked as an usher at the Pantages so she could see it over and over. Her dream is to play Elphaba.
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon 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.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Charlie Chaplin Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Pittacus That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
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  • George Washington The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Queen Victoria The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Seneca The sun also shines on the wicked.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Lao-Tzu The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Carl Sandburg 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.
    Chicago l. 6 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Confucius To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Billy Sunday When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • John Donne Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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