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"I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest." »Alexandre Dumas
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"The wicked at heart probably know something." »Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
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"It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it" »L. M. Montgomery
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"God bears with the wicked, but not forever." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." »Charlie Chaplin
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"He who spares the wicked injures the good." »Seneca
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"All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked." »Ecclesiastes 92 Bible
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"We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do." »Josh Billings
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"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks" »William Shakespeare
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"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!" »William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
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"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." »Oscar Wilde
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"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." »Oscar Wilde
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"We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best." »Winston Churchill
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"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
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"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends." »Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61
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"The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with themselves; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other?s wickedness." »Aristotle
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"Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin." »Horace Bushnell
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"The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever." »Plutarch
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"We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Whoso associates with the wicked will be accused of following their ways, though their principles may have made no impression upon him; just as if a person were in the habit of frequenting a tavern, he would not be supposed to go there for prayer, but to drink intoxicating liquor." »Sa?di
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"The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity." »Herbert Butterfield
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"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured." »Indian Proverb
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"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured." »Indian Proverb
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"Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them." »Plato
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"Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee." »William Shakespeare
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"Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin
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"Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked." »William Shakespeare
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"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
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