Quotes and Sayings About Wicked

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
-- Aesop

#Pain #Being Thankful #Wicked

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Wicked #Bass #Scene

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
-- Alan Rickman

#Wicked #Witch #Casts

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
-- Alasdair Gray

#People #Wicked #Said

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Intelligence #Intellectual #Wicked

We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils

#Sorrow #Wicked #Done

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Insightful #Wicked

Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.
-- Ally Carter

#Wicked #Caught #Shoulders

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
-- Ambrose

#Sympathy #Wicked #Harbors

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Heaven #Wicked #Attention

I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.
-- American McGee

#Wicked #Want #Littles

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Wicked #Desire #Done

In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.
-- Amos Elon

#Religious #War #Wicked

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
-- Amos Lee

#Powerful #Wicked #World

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
-- Anita Brookner

#Wicked #Fiction #Moral

I was good and bad, but never wicked.
-- Anne Rice

#Wicked #Good And Bad

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Brother #Wicked #Milk

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
-- Antisthenes

#Wicked #Done

Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.
-- Arcangela Tarabotti

#Men #Wicked #Speak

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
-- Aristophanes

#Believe #Hands #Wicked

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
-- Aristophanes

#Men #Wicked #Honest

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.
-- Aristotle

#Fear #Men #Wicked

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
-- Aristotle

#Men #Good Man #Wicked

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

#Blessing #Wicked #Done

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Wicked #Virtue #Forsaken

Did they look like anyone we know? For example… a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us Marcie Millar
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Giving #Wicked #Example

Well yoy did it,"I congratulated Patch. "I´m as trained as I´ll ever be-a lean, mean sword-fighting machine. I should have made you my personal trainer from day one." A rogue smile surfaced, slow and wicked. " No match for Patch." Patch&Nora (p.379)
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Mean #Fighting #Wicked

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Men #Wicked #Human Nature

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
-- Benton MacKaye

#Effort #Secret #Wicked

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Believe #Humility #Wicked