Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?
This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.
Most men are not wicked. . . They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
I was really happy with it, if I'm honest. I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out. Being told to leave is great. 'Get out you're too pissed', 'Wicked'.
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.
The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community. . . because we've turned from our wicked ways.
In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked. "
Working with Ty Power was exciting. In those days, he was the biggest romantic swashbuckler in the world. Murderously handsome! But what I loved most about Ty Power was his wicked sense of humor.
You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.