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Wickedness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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.

The majority is wicked. k. BIAS. The world loves a spice of wickedness.— LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Ch. VII. Bk. I.

Destroy his fib, or sophistry-in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again.— POPE — Prologue to the Satires. L. 91.

Are you call'd forth from out a world of men, To slay the innocent? Richard III. Act 1. Sc. 4. L. 186. '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.

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.

Nullum scelus rationem habet. No wickedness has any ground of reason.— LIVY — Annales. XXVIII. 28.