Wickedness Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Wickedness


There is a method in man’s wickedness, It grows up by degrees. Beaumont and Fletcher—A King and No King. Act V. Sc. 4.	1
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.	2
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. Ecclesiasticus. XXV. 19.	3
The world loves a spice of wickedness. Longfellow—Hyperion. Ch. VII. Bk. I.	4
Destroy his fib, or sophistry—in vain! The creature’s at his dirty work again. Pope—Prologue to the Satires. L. 91.	5
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs. XXVIII. 1.	6
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.	7
Are you call’d forth from out a world of men, To slay the innocent? Richard III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 186.	8
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.	9
’Cause I’s wicked,—I is. I’s mighty wicked, anyhow, I can’t help it. Harriet Beecher Stowe—Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ch. XX.	10