Wickedness Quotes

Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty.

~ Marcel Proust

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

~ Thomas Fuller

When a man's willing and eager God joins in.

~ Aeschylus

April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

~ T. S. Eliot

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

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

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

God bears with the wicked but not forever.

~ Cervantes

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

~ George

All cruelty springs from weakness.

~ Seneca

I must be cruel Only to be kind.

~ William Shakespeare

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

~ La Rochefoucauld

When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

~ W. H. Auden

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.

~ T. S. Eliot

We all have flaws and mine is being wicked.

~ James Thurber

Why inflict pain on oneself when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?

~ George W. Pacaud