COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Author | Authors by Date | | |||
There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, A King and No King (act V, sc. 4) All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (ch. XXV, v. 19) As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. - Bible, I Samuel (ch. XXIV, v. 13) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXVIII, v. 1) Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Legibus (II, 10) To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. - Confucius For good or evil must in our actions meet; Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. - Dr. John Donne Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The world loves a spice of wickedness. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (ch. VII, bk. I) Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires (l. 91) Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense? Where is the evidence that doth accuse me? What lawful quest have given their verdict up Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death Before I be convict by course of law? To threaten me with death is most unlawful: I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,] That you depart, and lay no hands on me. The deed you undertake is damnable. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv) Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. - George Bernard Shaw Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia! O semper timidum scelus!] - Statius (Publius Papanius Statius), Thebais (II, 489) 'Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (ch. XX) One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims You may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked. - John Wesley Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
|
|
