Careful Words

wicked (adj.)

  There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.

Old Testament: Job iii. 17.

  The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Old Testament: Proverbs xxviii. 1.

  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Old Testament: Isaiah lv. 7.

  And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 320.

  A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Old Testament: Proverbs xii. 10.

  When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Antisthenes. iv.

  No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

Juvenal (47-138 a d): Satire ii. 83.

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

Old Testament: Isaiah xlviii. 22.

Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,

Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;

For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes.

Open, locks,

Whoever knocks!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1.

  The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

Book Of Common Prayer: Catechism.