I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

... wickedness is its own punishment.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Better be poor than wicked.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes the short cut to everything.

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

Few men are wantonly wicked.