Sayings about Wickedness
You don’t need a teacher of wickedness.~ German Proverbs
No man ever became wicked all at once. ~ Latin Proverbs
Golden hands, but a wicked mouth. ~ Russian Proverbs
A wicked book cannot repent. ~ Traditional Proverb
Wicked cows have short horns. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. ~ Indian Proverbs
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. ~ Bible
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. ~ Bible
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands. ~ Jewish Proverbs
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.~ Bible
Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. ~ Bible
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. ~ Bible
The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. ~ American Proverbs
Quotations about Wickedness
Wickedness, is generally considered a synonym for evil or sinfulness. Among theologians and philosophers, it has the more specific meaning of evil committed consciously and of free will. It can also be considered the quality or state of being wicked. ~ More about Wickedness
The world loves a spice of wickedness. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
There is a method in man’s wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ~ Francis Beaumont
Few are so wicked as to take delight in crimes unprofitable. ~ John Dryden
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. ~ Plutarch
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. ~ John Dryden
There are wicked people who would be much less dangerous if they were totally without goodness. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ~ John Jay Chapman
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ~ Confucius
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.~ David Herbert Lawrence
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
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. ~ Titus Livy
Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
You may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked. ~ John Wesley
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. ~ Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
Peace and wickedness are far asunder. ~ Benjamin Stillingfleet
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
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. ~ Publilius Syrus
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ~ Jonathan Swift
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. ~ Honore de Balzac
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The disposition to do a bad deed is the most terrible punishment of the deed it does. ~ Charles Arundell St. John-Mildmay
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.~ A. J. P. Taylor
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. ~ Edmund Burke
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Wickedness resides in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated. ~ Cicero
One man’s wickedness may easily become all men’s curse. ~ Publilius Syrus
The majority is wicked. ~ Bias of Priene
For never, never wicked man was wise. ~ Alexander Pope
What rein can bold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds his fierce career? ~ William Shakespeare
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. ~ Lucretius
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. ~ James Madison
Wickedness may well b compared to a bottomless pit, into which it is easier to keep one’s self from falling, then, being fallen, to give one’s self any stay from falling infinitely. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. ~ Oscar Wilde
Wickedness is its own punishment. ~ Francis Quarles
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. ~ John Tillotson
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? ~ John Tillotson
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. ~ Robert Hunter
There’s a method in man’s wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ~ Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. ~ Isaac Watts
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
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. ~ Sophocles
The sun also shines on the wicked. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
God bears with the wicked, but not forever. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
Wickedness may prosper for a while. ~ Sir Roger L’Estrange
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. ~ Herman Melville
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. ~ Carl Jung
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. ~ Stephen Fry
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good! ~ Moslih Eddin