Wicked Quotes

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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.'

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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.

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.