Being Wicked Quotes

#1. We all have faults, mine is being wicked.

James Thurber

#2. Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

Thomas Watson

#3. To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore.

Oswald Chambers

#4. It's been a while since someone reminded him of the difference between being wicked because one has to be or because one can.

Fredrik Backman

#5. We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

James Thurber

#6. But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with.

Gregory Maguire

#8. He was one of your wicked, fascinating men. After he got married he left off being fascinating and just kept on being wicked.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. [M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short ... there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.

Joseph De Maistre

#10. It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Edmund Burke

#11. Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.

James Richardson

#12. It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

Epictetus

#13. I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

James C. Maxwell

#14. Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.

Rupert Grint

#15. 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

#16. Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#17. Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Blaise Pascal

#18. PRO3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. PRO3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. PRO3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Anonymous

#19. Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well.

Rupert Grint

#20. I was really happy with it, if I'm honest. I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out. Being told to leave is great. 'Get out you're too pissed', 'Wicked'.

Lee Ryan

#21. The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.

George MacDonald Fraser

#22. Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all

Ramakrishna

#23. You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence, being but Desires of the Mind.

James K. Morrow

#24. I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different ... and you can carve that in stone!

Jennifer Damiano

#25. I found out a long time ago it's more fun being the wicked witch than the helpless princess.

Tammy Faith

#26. Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.

Gregory Maguire

#27. In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She'd bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena's, which had led to Mount Olympus's first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.

Rick Riordan

#28. They now knew they were being tested somehow, put through WICKED's trials.

James Dashner

#29. If a starving bear ate my family, even though he may have had no wicked intentions, even though he was just being a bear, his nature has made him a menace,

Brandon Mull

#30. Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.

Cesar Chavez

#31. I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

Louisa May Alcott

#32. Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd when others are more wicked; not being the worst stands in some rank of praise.

William Shakespeare

#33. A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.

Paul Washer

#34. To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian's goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling's inverted position.

Billy Graham

#35. Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?

Jean Rhys

#36. She relaxed a bit - well, as much as one could relax while being half-naked and bleeding in front of a vampire. She was the picture of a tasty meal to one such as he.

Kiersten Fay

#37. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Oscar Wilde

#38. The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal bodies which have dragged them down into sin, but with the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth, so that "the dwelling of God is with humans" (Revelation 21:3).

N. T. Wright

#39. No, I'm thinking about myself - my black old inside self, the real one, with the fundamental honesty that keeps me from being absolutely wicked by making me realize my own sins.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#40. Being alone in a room full of people who never really looked at you didn't bother me. Or at least that's what I told myself.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#41. The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

Moliere

#42. And sing along for a few bars before changing it again. By the time we reached the darkened facade of La Maison, I was starting to wonder whether there were any Snow White variants that included killing the Wicked Queen for being too annoying to be allowed to live.

Seanan McGuire

#43. It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Rebecca West

#44. Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#45. Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

Rupert Grint

#46. Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

Plutarch

#47. And being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full.

Winston S. Churchill

#48. If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

George Sand

#49. the gospel of repentance is a constant reminder that the most righteous are still being tested and may yet fall, and that the most wicked are not yet beyond redemption and may still be saved."14

Marvin R. VanDam

#50. The most powerful way to keep your children from being attracted by the offers of camaraderie from the wicked is to make home an attractive place to be.

Tedd Tripp

#51. I've come to believe that there's a special place in hell reserved for wicked salespeople where they sit for all eternity being forced to answer their own Situation Questions.

Anonymous

#52. Spanking girls and being a girl receiving a spanking captures the feeling of falling from grace, that beyond the pleasure enhanced by the pain is a sense that you are being just a little bit wicked.

Chloe Thurlow

#53. Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

David Wilkerson

#54. I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Susan Sontag

#55. The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Gregory Maguire