Wicked Men Quotes

#1. There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.

Thomas Hoby

#2. 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

#3. What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

Saint Augustine

#4. How often, when I have told you that all men are false and perjury alike, and grow tired of us as soon as ever they have had their wicked wills of us, how often have you sworn you would never forsake me?

Henry Fielding

#5. Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men.

Anonymous

#7. Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

John Tillotson

#8. It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Oscar Wilde

#10. If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

Thomas Watson

#11. Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

Robert Musil

#12. Valentine lifted Rose to look her in the eye. You are staying away from men, my
sugar cake. Men are evil, wicked, and devious. I know this, because I am one.

Suzanne Enoch

#13. No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

Juvenal

#14. When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

Amelia Barr

#15. PSA12.8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Anonymous

#16. Wicked men have done dirty things to u but never ever think that u are dirty!

Gladys Lawson

#17. The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

#18. There were times, many, many times, when she just didn't get him. She'd heard on numerous occasions that men were bad, wicked creatures, who'd do terrible things at a moment's notice. You wore the wrong skirt or bent over at an inopportune time and BAM. They slipped their penises into you.

Charlotte Stein

#19. I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#20. This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Winston Churchill

#21. I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.

Sid Luckman

#22. The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

Charles Spurgeon

#23. Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

Voltaire

#24. Theocracy has been rightly abolished not because it is bad that learned priests should govern ignorant laymen, but because priests are wicked men like the rest of us.

C.S. Lewis

#25. A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#26. The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

Charles Grandison Finney

#27. Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Aristotle.

#28. Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

George Bernard Shaw

#29. How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

Charles Dickens

#30. It appeared the more religious and older men got, the more insatiable their appetite grew for teenage hymens; a short sighted, selfish, entitled and wicked appetite at that by the kind of men who were disillusioned enough to believe that the world revolved around their poles.

Dauglas Dauglas

#31. But my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved; but among the wicked, men shall lift up their voices and curse God and die.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#32. Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#33. Should we bury our memory barbs to keep them from piercing budding hearts? No doubt they will encounter their own tragedies in due time. Or should we warn our children that the world is harsh and men can be wicked?

Sarah McCoy

#34. The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

Pat Robertson

#35. A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

E.W. Howe

#36. If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

Benjamin Franklin

#37. If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of the most mighty and of the most wicked must minister to our relief.

Alexander Carson

#38. For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Homer

#39. He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

Anonymous

#40. No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

Daniel Defoe

#41. For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#42. Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

Voltaire

#43. Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Aristotle.

#44. It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#45. It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Plato

#46. There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

Michel De Montaigne

#47. He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

Chanakya

#48. The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

Friedrich Schiller

#49. You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

Iain Banks

#50. 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

#51. And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, - who is good? not that men are ignorant, - what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. He

W.E.B. Du Bois

#52. Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Elihu Root

#53. He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

Periander

#54. A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

Pope Clement I

#55. Evil people are those who knew they're evil, but refused to do anything about it.

Jawe Querimit

#56. Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

William Lloyd Garrison

#57. A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

Thomas Watson

#58. After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history

Josh McDowell

#59. Wicked me obey from fear;
good men,from love.

Aristotle.

#60. I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman.

Pete Hautman

#61. There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

Jonathan Edwards

#62. The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

John Calvin

#63. Let but thy wicked men from out thee go,
And all the fools that crowd thee so,
Even thou, who dost thy millions boast,
A village less than Islington wilt grow,
A solitude almost.

Abraham Cowley

#64. You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

George Bernard Shaw

#65. Prosperity of wicked men runs like a torrent past, and soon is spent.

Marcel Proust

#66. A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

Luc De Clapiers

#67. O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!

Samuel Richardson

#68. I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

Henry Ward Beecher

#69. Don't let those wicked men win, don't let them destroy you!

Gladys Lawson

#70. But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

Algernon H. Blackwood

#71. While one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor.

Cormac McCarthy

#72. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

James McHenry

#73. [Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters, ... advocates of the devil, race of vipers, slanderers, calumniators, dark-minded people, leaven of the Pharisees, sanhedrin of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners, and haters of righteousness.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#74. Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

John Tillotson

#75. It seemed to me a wicked tale, to blame a woman for men's folly.

Catherine M. Wilson

#76. No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Juvenal

#77. The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Plutarch

#78. I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.

Christina Dodd

#79. If Lucien is determined to have her, he won't let her be sensible. That's the entire point behind seduction. Men use passion to rob gentle bred ladies of their good sense."

-Cedric.
His Wicked Seduction

Lauren Smith

#80. 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

#81. No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

Benjamin Haydon

#82. 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

#83. The love of wicked men converts to fear, that fear to hate, and hate turns one or both to worthy danger and deserved death.

William Shakespeare

#84. Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#85. The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

#86. Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.

Franz Kafka

#87. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.

Gregory David Roberts

#88. The only really wicked men i have ever known were those who started as idealists. that is what depravity feeds on. illusions and idealism and love gone wrong.

Prosper Merimee

#89. But O the exceeding grace
Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.

Edmund Spenser

#90. Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Theognis Of Megara

#91. IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Ambrose Bierce

#92. My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

Moliere

#93. Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

Charles Dickens

#94. Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

Henry Ward Beecher

#95. Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life!

Sizzla

#96. There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

John Tillotson

#97. 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

#98. Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

Euripides

#99. Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.

Moliere

#100. Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.

Algernon Sidney