Quotes of Wickedness - somelinesforyou

“ If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ”

- Francis Beaumont

“ I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. ”

- Bible

“ When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them. ”

- La Rochefoucauld

“ One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. ”

- Carl Jung

“ There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ One is punished by the very things by which he sins. ”

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“ No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. ”

- Titus Livy

“ Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same. ”

- St. Teresa of Avila

“ The world loves a spice of wickedness. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ”

- Confucius

“ Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The passions of the young are vices in the old. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ Work keeps at bay, three great evils — boredom, vice and need. ”

- Unknown

“ Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ No man e'er reached the heights of vice at first. ”

- Juvenal

“ All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. ”

- Morris West

“ If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ”

- Junius

“ Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ”

- Adam Smith

“ Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead
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