Quotes by Wickedness Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. John Tillotson wickednessarbitraryvices Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. John Updike wickednessgutshard Wickedness is weakness. John Milton wickednessweakness If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission. John Milton wickednessweaknessmen I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable. John Ruskin wickednessselfishevil Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me. Jonah wickednesscome-upcities . . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness. Karl Popper wickednessstupiditypeople If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness Kathleen Winsor wickednessthrivewells My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North L. Frank Baum wickednessgirlbeautiful My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. Kurt Vonnegut wickednessadulteryfeelings Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. Laurence Sterne wickednessliteraturetogether We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency. Leonard Ravenhill wickednessweaknessevil It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men. Lincoln Steffens wickednessevilmen No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. Livy wickednessreason The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. Luc de Clapiers wickednesswickedclever Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. Lucretius wickednessliteraturemen Such evil deeds could religion prompt. Lucretius wickednessdeedsevil ...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. Lucy Maud Montgomery wickednesssorrowcomfort Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is. Lydia M. Child wickednesshalfpeople Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. Lucy Maud Montgomery wickednesspityweakness«12345678»
