Wicked Quotes

“I am tempted to incapacitate him with the hemlock and then castrate him.”
Lena paled. “I don’t think that would be very wise,” she said. “And the only knife we own is what I use for the cooking. You’re not using that.”
“I was planning on using a spoon,” Honoria replied.”
― Bec McMaster, Kiss of Steel

“In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

“Love makes hunters of us all.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all their good things in this life, and the good all their evil; that in this world God punishes the people he loves, and in the next, the ones he hates; that happiness makes us bad here, but not in heaven; that pain makes us good here, but not in hell. No matter how absurd these things may appear to the carnal mind, they must be preached and they must be believed. If they were reasonable, there would be no virtue in believing. Even the publicans and sinners believe reasonable things. To believe without evidence, or in spite of it, is accounted as righteousness to the sincere and humble christian.

In short, Christians are expected to denounce all pleasant paths and rustling trees, to curse the grass and flowers, and glorify the dust and weeds. They are expected to malign the wicked people in the green and happy fields, who sit and laugh beside the gurgling springs or climb the hills and wander as they will. They are expected to point out the dangers of freedom, the safety of implicit obedience, and to show the wickedness of philosophy, the goodness of faith, the immorality of science and the purity of ignorance.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“I’ve heard it said, that people, come into our lives for a reason. Bringing something we must learn and we aren’t, to help us most to grow, if we let them, and we help them in return. Well I don’t know if I believe that’s true, but I know I’m who I am today because I knew you”
― Stephen Schwartz

“To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.”
― Aniruddha Sastikar

“ 'So this is it' he thought. After everything he had been through, after all the mysteries and fighting and fleeting moments of hope, they were just going to kill him with some sort of poison gas? Stupid, that was what this was. Stupid. He had battled Grievers and Cranks, survived a gunshot and infection. WICKED. They were the ones who'd saved him. And now they were just going to gas him to death?”
― Josh Dashner The Scorch Trials

“We can go somewhere more private if you’d like… Buck” I whisper softly in his ear, pulling back almost as slowly as the wicked grin spreads across my face. His perverse smile hides nothing. I have him now, hook, line and zipper.”
― Dennis Sharpe, Blood & Spirits

“You got secrets you better keep
Take flight before she cuts you deep
- Sam's song”
― Helen Boswell, Mythology: The Wicked

“To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?”
― Galinda Glinda

“The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.”
― Augustine

“Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--”
― Gregory Maguire