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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.


Jane Austen

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JAMES MADISON For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows;...
MARQUIS DE SADE All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.
BIBLE War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich d...
GORE VIDAL Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
UNKNOWN While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
CICERO Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents f...
DANIEL WEBSTER Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
GEORGE HERBERT Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES Wickedness is a wrong action.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! [Lat., O caeca no...
STATIUS (PUBLIUS PAPANIUS STATIUS) No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism
WINSTON CHURCHILL Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may ta...
DANIEL WEBSTER Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
SOPHOCLES To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
CONFUCIUS Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
GIDEON WURDZ There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
OSCAR WILDE One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense? Where is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again.
ALEXANDER POPE Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon a...
OSCAR WILDE The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
BIBLE Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but...
INDIAN PROVERB It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
L M MONTGOMERY 'Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER STOWE The sun also shines on the wicked.
SENECA The growth rate of one's wickedness starts nibbling and gobbling one's ideation ability to innovate.
ANUJ SOMANY Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of...
JUDITH IVORY Are those paper clips?' I'd seen them in catalogs, but the pictures don't do them justice. They're b...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, wh...
LEMONY SNICKET Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
TOM ROBBINS Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
BIBLE It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it k...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it k...
CARL JUNG To sow wickedness is to reap wrath of destruction.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Anger without power is folly.
GERMAN PROVERB What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve res...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. ROWLING Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ The wickedness of the secular agenda is destroying this country.
NORM TOMLINSON I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE Knowledge without sense is twofold folly
SPANISH PROVERB Folly is the cloak of knavery.
WILLIAM BLAKE Folly is the stupidity of heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
SIR WALTER SCOTT For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Treasures gotten by wickedness will not profit (Proverbs 10:2)
SATYA KALRA Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
THOMAS PAINE Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness
THOMAS PAINE Mr. Bush, tolerance of wickedness and sin is no family value.
MICHAEL JOHNSON If wickedness is fine with you, how can the goodness shine?
APURVA GAGLANI Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their dea...
THOMAS FULLER Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degene...
RT. HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
WILLIAM COWPER Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping bucke...
WILLIAM COWPER The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
WILLIAM COWPER To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
PIERRE CHARRON Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Fool me no fools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable work...
BIBLE Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishne...
BIBLE It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
BIBLE Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed...
BIBLE The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
FRANCIS BACON All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A fool must now and then be right by chance.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) More knave than fool.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool accordin...
BIBLE Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There has to be a more satisfactory answer than let's do more of the same. It's a bit of folly to sa...
ANGELA KELLEY He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
AMBROSE BIERCE HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. Ac...
AMBROSE BIERCE MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
AMBROSE BIERCE

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JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN