wickedness

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

I must be cruel Only to be kind.

God bears with the wicked but not forever.

Wickedness is weakness.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty.

It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.

God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is never too late to clean up your life.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

When he speaks into your ear so thatno one can hear, he will say he is your slave, that he__ passed to you from Deirdre. But it__ a lie, my dear,a vicious lie. He__l make you his and drive you mad if you refuse to do his will. That is what he__ done tothem all._ She stopped, her wrinkled brows tightening, her eyes drifting off across the dusty surface of thetable. __xcept for those who were strong enough to rein him in and make him the slave he claimed to be,and use him for their own ends_ _ Her voice trailed off. __heir own endless wickedness.