#wicked

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#cannot #checking #contain #enlist #everyone

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#always #find #good #people #surprised

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

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

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

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

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

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism

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