#wicked

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#nothing #our #permanent #troubles #wicked

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#been #believe #boy #certain #could

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#all things #deceitful #deliver #desperately #excellent

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cease #fascination #long #looked #popular

I'm a wicked ping-pong player. ↗

— David Baldacci

#player #wicked

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#always #find #good #surprised #wicked

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. ↗

— John Donne

#much #than #wicked #worse

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. ↗

— Moby

#dinner #elton #elton john #friends #got