wicked quotes

Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.

-Jane Austen
  Of heroines in novels. Letter to Fanny Knight, 23 Mar.

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the L exceedingly.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis13:13.

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 3:17.

Truly God isgood to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 73:1^3.

   Search me,O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms139:23^4.

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 57:21.

As I live, saith the Lord G, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his wayand live: turnye, turnye from yourevil ways; for why will ye die,O house of Israel?

-Bible (Old Testament)
ODEzekiel 33:11.

I never saw a brute I hated so; He must be wicked to deserve such pain.

- Robert Browning
  Men and Women,'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

'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
  Dipsychus (published1865), sc.6.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor†not that men are wicked†but that men know so little of men.

-W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Du Bois
  The Souls of Black Folk, ch.12.

I know heisa devil, but hehassomethingoftheangel yet undefaced in him, which makes him so charming and agreeable that I must love him, be he never so wicked.

- Sir George Etherege
  The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

MissTwye was soaping her breasts in the bath When she heard behind her a meaning laugh And to her amazement she discovered A wicked man in the bathroom cupboard.

- Gavin Buchanan Ewart
  'Miss Twye'.

All except the best men would rather be called wicked than vulgar.

- C(live) S(taples) Lewis
Quoted in The Guardian, 21  Aug1980.

Si nolueris habitare cum turpidis, non habitatis Londonie. If you do not want to live among wicked people, do not live in London.

-Richard of Devizes   fl.c.1190
c.1192  Chronicle of Richard of Devizes of theTime of King Richard I.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore they have no shame. They have the power to ask for love because they don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. But we, who have love, and long to mingle it with the love of others: we cannot utter a word.You find that, don't you?

- George Bernard Shaw
  Marchbanks to Proserpine. Candida, act 2.

When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun roseand set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?† What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my country?

-Sitting Bull real name Tatanka Iyotake
c.1866  Quoted inT C McLuhan Touch the Earth (1973).

   Lord, remove these exercises from the Sabbath. Any exercise which withdraweth from godliness either upon the Sabbath or on any other day, is wicked and to be forbidden.

- Philip Stubbes
  Anatomie of Abuses in the Realme of England.

'We all have flaws,' he said,'and mine is being wicked.'

-James Grover Thurber
  The13 Clocks, ch.8.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Said by Cecily.The Importance of Being Earnest, act 2.