Wicked Quotes

Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, - who is good? not that men are ignorant, - what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

It's true what they say,
Love is a wicked game,
A game so wickedly played,
I am at your command in your wicked games.

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing - by dint of ignorance and innocence - that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.

One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions.

There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

Of course. You get everything from books.

A man is not for you when all he knows is to slam your back on the bed and ram into you like a wild fool. The interested ones are the ones so interested that they become very interested in only interesting things about you.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.

When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in the society into pieces.

Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.