Wicked Quotes

Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?

~ Galinda Glinda

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said.

~ Virginia Woolf

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2) You post threats to someone.(3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts.(4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention.Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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 scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

~ Molière

Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil, evil in the right place and time becomes good.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

~ Gregory Maguire

If you do not understand the Golden Rule, which is the most important law in the universe, then you are in trouble. All other rules in your holy books combined — are not as valuable as the ONE Golden Rule. Take two minutes to learn the most crucial law in life. Killing another human comes with the highest penalty, regardless of how you justify it. All life is sacred.

~ Suzy Kassem

Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The most savage of human kind are the most advanced

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone’s dream

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We can't play God.We can't do this to kids.You're evil, I'm evil.Everyone will die.No matter what.Let nature win.

~ James Dashner

I only have two fingers left.I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers.That is the truth.We are evil.They are kids.We are evil.

~ James Dashner

Was he he handsome? she asked with a sly smirk.Very. He is still, I think.The devil, they say, goes about in finery.And if you believe Beelzebub is as cunning as he is attractive, then I think we have found him.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

~ John Connolly

Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear. ~Madame Zelda to Roller Deb

~ Red Tash

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

~ Euripides

Neither every rich person is noble nor miser.Neither every poor person is humble nor wicked.

~ Salsabeel

And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

~ Alexandre Dumas

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

~ Rubianne Wood

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

~ Edith Hamilton

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

~ Gregory Maguire

The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—the scars are deeply engraved into one’s psyche, and there’s no remedy for the soul. Many have the misconception that freedom equals happiness forever and ever.That’s a wicked delusion.

~ Laura Kreitzer

If a wicked rake doesn’t kiss a young lady when they’re alone in a moonlit rose garden, might it mean he doesn’t intend to? There were rules about such things. Weren’t they written down somewhere? If not, then they should be. A Treatise on Rakes, written for Susceptible Young Ladies, by a Lady of Distinction.

~ Anna Bradley

I think I finally understand the saying like a moth to a flame. I’m the moth. My heart flutters like the paper thin wings. And he is the flame, incendiary, scorching my soul.He inhales so heavily, like he’s been holding his breath under water. He presses his lips against mine and tugs at my hair gently. My head falls back and my mouth falls open. His tongue, slick as silver, dances with mine.I’m wrong. I’m not a moth. I’m Icarus and I’ve flown too close to the sun.

~ A.d. Evans

There’s something familiar about the curve of her lower lip. The weight cradled by a soft, slender chin. The bow of her top lip sweeps across it in a way that makes me think of the sun setting on the horizon. A perfect paint stroke of pink to light the sky. -Excerpt from Born Wicked ©2014 A.D. Evans

~ A.d. Evans

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--

~ Gregory Maguire

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

~ Gregory Maguire

For the righteous, the revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth. But for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses.

~ Emily Thorne

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

~ Jonathan Swift

It's true what they say, Love is a wicked game,A game so wickedly played,I am at your command in your wicked games.

~ Tanzy Sayadi

The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.

~ Ray Bradbury

Salvation is not about proving the existence of God, Salvation is about where you want to go from this sinful wicked world. Matthew 24

~ Felix Wantang

I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girls. . . . How many have danced to death in slippers of silk and glass and fur and wood? Too many to count—the graveyards, they are so full these days. You are very wise to let your soles become grubby with mud, to let them grow their own slippers of moss and clay and calluses. This is far preferable to shoes which may become wicked at any moment.

~ Catherynne M. Valente