The majority is wicked. [ Bias ]
The sure way to wickedness
Is always through wickedness. [ Seneca ]
Wickedness is its own punishment. [ Quarles ]
Wickedness may prosper for a while. [ L'Estrange ]
Dissembled sin is double wickedness. [ Proverb ]
For never, never wicked man was wise. [ Pope ]
Peace and wickedness are far asunder. [ Stillingfleet ]
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! [ Statius ]
The world loves a spice of wickedness. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Wickedness may be safe, but not secure. [ Seneca ]
No wickedness has any ground of reason. [ Livy ]
Destroy his fib, or sophistry - in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again. [ Pope ]
Are you called forth from out a world of men,
To slay the innocent? [ William Shakespeare ]
Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook baited. [ Proverb ]
He that works wickedness by another is wicked himself. [ Proverb ]
The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent. [ Racine ]
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. [ Publius Syrus ]
They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same. [ Bible ]
Few are so wicked an to take delight in crimes unprofitable. [ Dryden ]
There's a method in man's wickedness: it grows up by degrees. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Wickedness is its own punishment, and many times its own cure. [ Proverb ]
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. [ Balzac ]
However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God. [ Shakespeare ]
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. [ Tillotson ]
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? [ Tillotson ]
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 ]
Mental stains cannot be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [ Cicero ]
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. [ Confucius ]
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death. [ Bible ]
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. [ Swift ]
In time of affliction, a vow; in the time of prosperity, an increase of wickedness. [ Hebrew Proverb ]
The disposition to do a bad deed is the most terrible punishment of the deed it does. [ Charles Mildway ]
Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. [ Thomas Sprat ]
What rein can hold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds his fierce career? [ William Shakespeare ]
Wickedness resides in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated. [ Cicero ]
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good! [ Saadi ]
Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold. [ Claudianus ]
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. [ H. W. Shaw ]
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou are dieted for health. [ Fuller ]
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. [ Thackeray ]
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. [ Dryden ]
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself: for every guilty person is his own hangman. [ Seneca ]
Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. [ Juv ]
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. [ Plutarch ]
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 ]
Wickedness may well be compared to a bottomless pit, into which it is easier to keep one's self from falling, then, being fallen, to give one's self any stay from falling infinitely. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
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 ]
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. [ Lowell ]
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 ]