The majority is wicked. [ Bias ]
Better be poor than wicked. [ Proverb ]
The wicked are always ungrateful. [ Cervantes ]
The sun shines even on the wicked. [ Seneca ]
For never, never wicked man was wise. [ Homer ]
Parent of wicked, bane of honest deeds. [ Prior ]
Praises from wicked men are reproaches. [ Proverb ]
A wicked man is afraid of his own memory. [ Proverb ]
God permits the wicked, but not for ever. [ Proverb ]
A wicked woman, and an evil,
Is three half pence worse than the devil. [ Proverb ]
A wicked companion invites us all to hell. [ Proverb ]
For good or evil must in our actions meet;
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. [ Donne ]
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it. [ Ben Jonson ]
Anything serves as a pretext for the wicked. [ Voltaire ]
A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war. [ Luther ]
It is a wicked world, and we make part of it. [ Proverb ]
A wicked man is the worst thing in the world. [ Proverb ]
A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his master. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still. [ William Shakespeare ]
One wicked weed spoils a whole mess of porridge. [ Proverb ]
It is a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better dwell with a dragon than with a wicked woman. [ Proverb ]
He that works wickedness by another is wicked himself. [ Proverb ]
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord. [ Bible ]
The wicked heart never fears God, but when it thunders. [ Proverb ]
The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent. [ Racine ]
The righteous find peace, when the wicked feel torment. [ Proverb ]
The smooth speeches of the wicked are full of treachery. [ Phaedrus ]
Many a lash in the dark doth conscience give the wicked. [ Boston ]
Whoso is wicked in the country, will be so also in town. [ Proverb ]
A wicked book is the wickeder, because it cannot repent. [ Proverb ]
All the wicked are water-drinkers; this the deluge proves.
He that has led a wicked life is afraid of his own memory. [ Proverb ]
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [ Terence ]
The love of the wicked is more dangerous than there hatred. [ Proverb ]
The wicked grow worse, and the good men better from trouble. [ Proverb ]
Few are so wicked an to take delight in crimes unprofitable. [ Dryden ]
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [ Vauvenargues ]
A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. [ William Shakespeare ]
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors. [ Seneca ]
Wicked men, like mad-men, have sometimes their lucid intervals. [ Proverb ]
A good man has more hope in his death, than a wicked in his life. [ Proverb ]
Dissimulation they say is very wicked, yet we live by dissimulation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? [ Tillotson ]
Virtue is more persecuted by the wicked, than encouraged by the good. [ Proverb ]
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. [ Dr. Watts ]
'Cause I'se wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. [ Confucius ]
Virtue is so praiseworthy that wicked people practice it from self-interest. [ Vauvenargues ]
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. [ Swift ]
Wise and good men invented the laws, but fools and the wicked put them upon it. [ Proverb ]
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. [ Saadi ]
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? [ Bible ]
A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all in piety. [ Johnson ]
The good are joyful in the midst of poverty; but the wicked are sad in great riches. [ Proverb ]
A wicked man is his own hell; and his passions and lusts the fiends that torment him. [ Proverb ]
The gains of the wicked bring shortlived pleasure, but afterwards long continued grief. [ Antiphanes ]
Wicked women bother one, good women bore one. That is the only difference between them. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
To err is human: but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [ Alfieri ]
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell but the mere pleasure of God. [ Jonathan Edwards ]
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark upon the face, especially the eyes. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. [ Bible ]
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good! [ Saadi ]
Hypocrites are wicked: they hide their defects with so much care, that their hearts are poisoned by them. [ Marguerite de Valais ]
I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left. [ George Eliot ]
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. [ H. W. Shaw ]
No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked. [ Burns ]
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou are dieted for health. [ Fuller ]
We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. [ Dryden ]
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. [ Montaigne ]
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. [ Burke ]
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. [ Tillotson ]
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. [ George Washington ]
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely wicked; but grows so, either as he holds himself up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which selfrighteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself. [ J. G. Holland ]
As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour; but friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadow, till the sun of life sets. [ Herder ]
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. [ Burke ]
Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth. [ Tupper ]
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. [ Bible ]
It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired places some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon. [ Lowell ]
When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults. [ Agapet ]
Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]
Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners! [ Justin Martyr ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]