#wicked

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#love #romance #the-harlequin #true-love #wicked

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#art

God has a most wicked sense of humor. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#humor #most #sense #sense of humor #wicked

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#sin #wickedness #life

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#affairs #business #daily #obscene #papers

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. ↗

— Charles Taze Russell

#age #bible #brought #declares #destroy

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. ↗

— Sophocles

#chance #good #good man #man #never

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

#after #began #crying #day #ever

All things truly wicked start from innocence. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#innocence #start #things #truly #wicked

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ↗

— Buddha

#loved #more #persecuted #than #virtue