(134 quotes found)
“It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?”
Lucy Maud Montgomery
“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
“Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wicked thoughts.”
Moliere
“In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves”
William Shakespeare
“The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.”
Bible
“And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.”
“You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy”
Mark Twain
“You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.”
Horace
“In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.”
“The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.”
