#wick

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#curiosity #learning #wick

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #distinguishes #err #felt #human

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#cannot #checking #contain #enlist #everyone

I'm a wicked ping-pong player. ↗

— David Baldacci

#player #wicked

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#always #find #good #surprised #wicked

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#always #find #good #people #surprised

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. ↗

— Chanakya

#fly #man #mouth #poison #saturated

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#contemplation #goodness #our #own #solely

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. ↗

— John Donne

#much #than #wicked #worse

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#every #experience #fruit #fully #garden