
“I know that in a pure heart a wicked person does more damage than a hailstorm in a vineyard.”
Dario, Act II, scene ii.
Theater Quotes
Source: Without Feathers
“I know that in a pure heart a wicked person does more damage than a hailstorm in a vineyard.”
Dario, Act II, scene ii.
Theater Quotes
“Something wicked this way comes”
Variant: By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Source: Macbeth
“When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.”
Source: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Inhumanity of Slavery. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester. December 8, 1850
1850s, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
“However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.”
Vol. I, Luke V: 12–16, p. 137
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)
“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked;”
Letter to Fanny Knight (1816-03-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Context: He and I should not in the least agree, of course, in our ideas of novels and heroines. Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked; but there is some very good sense in what he says, and I particularly respect him for wishing to think well of all young ladies; it shows an amiable and a delicate mind. And he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my works.