To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
It is only when we possess ourselves that we can give ourselves to others. If what we possess feels wrong, bad, or wicked, then we try not only to hide it from others, but we also try to hide it from ourselves.
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
Those who don't try never look foolish.
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.
The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.
A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.