#wicked

He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anything. Her leaving didn't negate his promises; they weren't conditional. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#leslie #wicked-lovely #love

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#fight #means #mistake #noble #overcome

Of all the living, man is the most wicked. Love for the good it has done or hate it for all the bad. ↗

— Sachidanand Das

#wickedness #love

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#gun #his #horse #i #lessons

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

#beautiful women #behind #brain #ever #eyes

I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch. ↗

— Jude Law

#boring #charming #cinderella #i #most

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#general #himself #man #reduced #too

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#beaten #because #been #blows #encourage

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#melena #mother #pregnancy #wicked #life

For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling at the roadside splashing from the cottage roof in garlands of ivy and stringflower ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life