#wickedness

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#attraction

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#sin #wickedness #life

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#cruel #degrees #despair #differing #doubt

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#distresses #expected #grieves #may #revival

Evil people are those who knew they're evil, but refused to do anything about it. ↗

— Jawe Querimit

#wicked-people #wickedness #men

money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#wickedness #money

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#characters #evil #interesting #only #only time

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#grows #man #method #up #wickedness

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

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