#wicked

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

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

— Ajay Naidu

#heavily #i #into #really #scene

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

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#attempt #brutal #comprehensible #courageous #else

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

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. ↗

— Haile Selassie

#easier #much #never #show #wicked

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#more #occasions #other #put #sin

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked. ↗

— Charles Lawrence

#civil #civil society #firm #gentlemen #guardian

To what shall we compare our fragile life? Life is like a speck of dust that alights upon a surface. It remains there, unmoved, until a draft threatens it. When a breeze comes it holds on till the last. Finally, a gust of wind comes and it is blown asunder. That is how fragile life is, like a speck of dust blown to nothingness. ↗

— Paul Worthington

#goodbye #grandma-s-secret #melted-dreams #wicked-turn #dreams