Wickedness

Wickedness is the state of being wicked, having an evil disposition, or tending toward immorality.

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• There is a method in man's wickedness,
  It grows up by degrees.
  • Beaumont and Fletcher, A King and No King, (1611; 1619), Act V, scene 4.

• The world loves a spice of wickedness.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Chapter VII, Book I.

• By the pricking of my thumbs,
  Something wicked this way comes.
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c.1605), Act IV, Scene I, Second Witch.

• Are you call'd forth from out a world of men,
  To slay the innocent?
  • William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 4, line 186.

• 'Cause I's wicked,—I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Chapter XX.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 868.

• Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.
  • Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
  • Cicero, De Legibus, II. 10.

• All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.
  • Ecclesiasticus, XXV. 19.

• Destroy his fib, or sophistry—in vain!
  The creature's at his dirty work again.
  • Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 91.

• The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
  • Proverbs, XXVIII. 1.

• As saith the proverb of the Ancients,
  Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked.
  • I Samuel, XXIV. 13. David to Saul. Said to be the oldest proverb on record.

• O cæca nocentum consilia!
  O semper timidum scelus!
  • Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
    Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
  • Statius, Thebais, II, 489.