- As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. ~ Sophocles
- God bears with the wicked, but not forever. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.~ A. J. P. Taylor
- In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ~ Anna Jameson
- In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. ~ Robert Hunter
- It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. ~ Carl Jung
- It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.~ Josh Billings
- It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.~ Lydia M. Child
- Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. ~ Laurence Sterne
- Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
- No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. ~ Titus Livy
- Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ~ John Jay Chapman
- Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. ~ Lucretius
- Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. ~ Stephen Fry
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad
- The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ~ Thomas Mellon
- There are wicked people who would be much less dangerous if they were totally without goodness. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- There is a method in man’s wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ~ Francis Beaumont
- There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. ~ Herman Melville
- There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
- The sun also shines on the wicked. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.~ Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
- The world loves a spice of wickedness. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- This also is a part of the Church’s teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.~ Origen
- This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.~ David Herbert Lawrence
- Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.~ Bob Riley
- To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ~ Confucius
- War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. ~ James Madison
- We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.~ Camilla P. Bowles
- What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That’s the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.~ Jennifer Beals
- When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. ~ Billy Sunday
- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Wickedness is its own punishment. ~ Francis Quarles
- You don’t need a teacher of wickedness.~ German Proverb
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