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Are you call'd forth from out a world of men, To slay the innocent? - William Shakespeare What rein can bold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds his fierce career? - William Shakespeare 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 It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Wickedness may well b compared to a bottomless pit, into which it is easier to keep one's self from falling, then, being fallen, to give one's self any stay from falling infinitely. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney), Arcadia (bk. I) Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! - Statius (Publius Papanius Statius) 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) Peace and wickedness are far asunder. - Benjamin Stillingfleet 'Cause I'se wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe '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) I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. - Jonathan Swift The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. - William Makepeace Thackeray Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? - John Tillotson Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. - John Tillotson Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. - Isaac Watts 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) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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