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A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. – Agnes Repplier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. – Jonathan Swift	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked. – Ulysses S. Grant	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. – Queen Victoria	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. – Queen Victoria	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal. – Mary Baker Eddy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them. – Plato	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with themselves; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other?s wickedness. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Whoso associates with the wicked will be accused of following their ways, though their principles may have made no impression upon him; just as if a person were in the habit of frequenting a tavern, he would not be supposed to go there for prayer, but to drink intoxicating liquor. – Saadi Shirazi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. – Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. – Indian Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! – William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The wicked at heart probably know something. – Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country? – Sitting Bull	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. – Alexandre Dumas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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