#wicked

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature #night #sorrow #sublime #wickedness

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#good-and-evil #temptation #wickedness #opportunity

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#characters #evil #interesting #only #only time

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#grows #man #method #up #wickedness

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' ↗

— Lao Tzu

#did #good #good leader #great #leader

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#believed #conscience #friends #guilt #hated

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#all things #deceitful #deliver #desperately #excellent

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#wicked #witch

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. ↗

— Robert Hunter

#given #grace #how #light #little

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much. ↗