Wicked famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
-- Aesop -
I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.
-- Ajay Naidu -
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
-- Alan Rickman -
She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
-- Alasdair Gray -
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Kat!†Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.
-- Ally Carter -
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
-- Ambrose -
Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.
-- American McGee -
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.
-- Amos Elon -
Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
-- Amos Lee -
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
-- Anita Brookner -
How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.
-- Anthony Burgess -
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
-- Antisthenes -
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.
-- Arcangela Tarabotti -
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
-- Aristophanes -
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
-- Aristophanes -
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.
-- Aristotle -
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
-- Aristotle -
There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
Did they look like anyone we know? For example… a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us Marcie Millar
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Well yoy did it,"I congratulated Patch. "I´m as trained as I´ll ever be-a lean, mean sword-fighting machine. I should have made you my personal trainer from day one." A rogue smile surfaced, slow and wicked. " No match for Patch." Patch&Nora (p.379)
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
-- Benton MacKaye -
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
-- Bertrand Russell -
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
-- Bertrand Russell -
When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.
-- Big Pun -
Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.
-- Brady Udall -
You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.
-- Brandon Lee -
All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.
-- Brenna Yovanoff -
I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.
-- Brigham Young -
Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.
-- Brom -
Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.
-- Brom -
My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.
-- Catherine of Aragon -
There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric
-- Charlaine Harris -
Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.
-- Charles Buck -
If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.
-- Charles Grandison Finney -
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.
-- Charles Hodge -
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.
-- Charles Kingsley -
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
-- Charles Taze Russell -
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
-- Curtis LeMay -
When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.
-- Cynthia Rylant -
She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
-- Dashiell Hammett -
We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.
-- Dave Mason -
Jehovah is guarding all those loving him, But all the wicked ones he will annihilate.
-- David -
In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.
-- David Connolly -
Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.
-- David Sedaris -
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
-- David Wilkerson -
Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.
-- Diane Johnson -
She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.
-- Djuna Barnes -
About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.
-- Don Herold -
I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
-- Don Winslow -
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
-- Ed Sheeran -
Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.
-- Ed Sheeran -
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
-- Edith Hamilton -
The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.
-- Edward Thomson -
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
So what about that key?" I asked. "I knew you'd be asking me about it sooner or later." He pulled the cord out from underneath his shirt and dangled the key in front of me. "What do you want for it?" I sneered. "Five dollars?" "I don't want money," he said with a wicked grin. "What does it go to?" "A kiss will unlock more than this key will," he whispered in my ear.
-- Ellen Schreiber -
You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.
-- Emily Dickinson -
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
-- Epictetus -
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
-- Euripides -
I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.
-- Eva Longoria -
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth
-- Fanny Burney -
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes -
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
-- Gary Bauer -
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
-- Gaston Leroux -
I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!
-- Gaston Leroux -
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.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
-- George Farquhar -
Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.
-- George R. R. Martin -
The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us, those who love righteousness, to jump on the necks of the wicked. We prefer to have it attended to in a more dignified, impersonal way by Society as a whole.
-- Gerald Stanley Lee -
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.
-- Grant Morrison -
I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!
-- Gregory Maguire -
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.
-- Gregory Maguire -
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.
-- Gregory of Nyssa -
...we are not without hope of salvation, nor is it at all the right time for us to despair. All our life is a season of repentance, for God 'desires not the death of the sinner', as it is written, 'but that the wicked turn from his way and live' (cf. Ez. 33:11 LXX). For, if there were no hope of turning back, why would death not have followed immediately on disobedience, and why would we not be deprived of life as soon as we sin? For where there is hope of turning back, there is no room for despair.
-- Gregory Palamas -
You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.
-- Gunter Grass -
Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas -
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
-- Helen Hayes -
I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all -- thinking all the pleasant things are wicked.
-- Helen Nielsen
