#wicked

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

— Luc de Clapiers

#always #find #good #surprised #wicked

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. ↗

— Chanakya

#fly #man #mouth #poison #saturated

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. ↗

— Horace Mann

#also #call #evil #how #inevitable

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#arguing #bad #either #his way #may

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#account #died #husbands #just #leftover

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. ↗

— Bob Riley

#consumed #evil #good #good people #leads

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#day #die #eat #fear #gig