Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
“Blind counsels of the wicked! Crime cowardly ever!”
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 489
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“I am shocked by this wicked crime.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Reaction to the assassination of Gandhi. Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 27, 1948. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19480127&id=n_4uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GNwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1578,6285092&hl=en <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955)
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
Preface to The Practice of Prelates (1531).
Context: Take heed, therefore, wicked prelates, blind leaders of the blind; indurate and obstinate hypocrites, take heed …. Ye will be the chiefest in Christ's flock, and yet will not keep one jot of the right way of his doctrine …ye keep thereof almost naught at all, but whatsoever soundeth to make of your bellies, to maintain your honour, whether in the Scripture, or in your own traditions, or in the pope's law, that ye compel the lay-people to observe; violently threatening them with your excommunications and curses, that they shall be damned, body and soul, if they keep them not. And if that help you not, then ye murder them mercilessly with the sword of the temporal powers, whom ye have made so blind that they be ready to slay whom ye command, and will not hear his cause examined, nor give him room to answer for himself.
“To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.”
D'uomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Rosmunda, III, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 665.
“This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Imre Lakatos (1921–1974) Hungarian mathematician, philosopher
“Art is the language of the tormented, but the world is blind to that, for ever blind.”
Steven Erikson book Forge of Darkness
Forge of Darkness (2013)
“No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.”
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.
II, line 83.
Compare: "There is a method in man’s wickedness, — It grows up by degrees
Beaumont and Fletcher, A King and No King, Act v, scene 4.
Satires, Satire II
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)