WICKEDNESS

Related Subjects: Baseness, Character, Conscience, Error, Evil, Guilt, Knavery, Malevolence, Morality, Perversity, Sin, Vice, Villainy, Whore

1. As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked.—Bible, 1 Samuel 24:13
   

2. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.—Bible, Job 20:12
   

3. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! . . . They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.—Bible, Job 21:17, 18
   

4. I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.—Bible, Psalms 37:35, 36
   

5. The way of transgressors is hard.—Bible, Proverbs 13:15
   

6. There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.—Bible, Isaiah 48:22
   

7. Let the wicked foresake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.—Bible, Isaiah 55:7
   

8. Ye have ploughed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity.—Bible, Hosea 10:13
   

9. Wide is the gate, and broad the is way, that leadeth to destruction.—Bible, Matthew 7:13
   

10. The fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.—BROWNING, The Ring and the Book
    

11. God bears with the wicked, but not forever.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
    

12. For never, never wicked man was wise.—HOMER, Odyssey
    

13. No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.—JUVENAL
    

14. The world loves a spice of wickedness.—LONGFELLOW, Hyperion
    

15. All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,
    With God or man will gain thee no remission.—MILTON, Samson Agonistes
    

16. The success of the wicked entices many more.—PHAEDRUS, Fables
    

17. A wicked man is his own hell.—Proverb
    

18. Woe be to the wicked, and woe be to them that cleave to them.—Proverb
    

19. The wicked heart never fears God, but when it thunders.—Proverb
    

20. He that worketh wickedness by another is wicked himself.—Proverb
    

21. Better dwell with a dragon than with a wicked woman.—Proverb
    

22. One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

23. No one is so wicked as to wish to appear wicked.—QUINTILIAN, De Institutione Oratoria
    

24. And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

25. What rein can hold licentious wickedness
    When down the hill he holds his fierce career?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
    

26. 'Cause I's wicked,—I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.—HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, Uncle Tom's Cabin