31 Wicked Quotes To Inspire

Inspiration can come from the most unexpected places, and sometimes, it's the more daring and unconventional quotes that light a fire within us. Wicked quotes, with their bold and often rebellious undertones, have a unique way of stirring the soul and challenging us to see the world from a new perspective. Whether it’s a sharp slice of wisdom or a provocative prompt to ignite your inner strength, these wicked quotes are here to inspire and motivate. Delve into our carefully curated collection of the top 31 wicked quotes and let them guide you toward a renewed sense of purpose and courage.

1. “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.” - Jonathan Swift

2. “I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.” - Stephen Schwartz

3. “And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.” - Gregory Maguire

4. “One must be cunning and wicked in this world.” - Leo Tolstoy

5. “For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling at the roadside splashing from the cottage roof in garlands of ivy and stringflower ” - Gregory Maguire

6. “Popular,You're gonna bePopular!I'll teach you the proper ployswhen you talk to boys!Little ways to flirt and flounce!I'll show you what shoes to wear,how to fix your hair,everything that really counts,to bePOPULAR!!” - Stephen Schwartz

7. “Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.” - Gregory Maguire

8. “The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.” - Jill Paton Walsh

9. “I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts.I'll be watching....Mwah!-A” - Sara Shepard

10. “Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.” - Lisa Kleypas

11. “Well, siblings can be overrated.” - Emily Fields

12. “And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!” - Alexandre Dumas

13. “Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.” - T.F. Hodge

14. “In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.” - Gregory Maguire

15. “I am wicked in many ways.” - Jessica Spotswood

16. “All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.” - Brenna Yovanoff

17. “I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.” - Gregory Maguire

18. “[after discussion about what evil is, a question asked to Elphaba on why she killed Madame Morrible]"Why did you do it?" asked the hostess with spirit.The Witch shrugged. "For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.” - Gregory Maguire

19. “What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.” - Gregory Maguire

20. “Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...” - Gregory Maguire

21. “What she looks like and what she is capable of doing are two different things. Wickedly beautiful.” - Cameron Jace

22. “How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.” - Gregory Maguire

23. “That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?” - Gregory Maguire

24. “Love makes hunters of us all.” - Gregory Maguire

25. “Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.” - Gregory Maguire

26. “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

27. “ '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

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

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

30. “You got secrets you better keepTake flight before she cuts you deep- Sam's song” - Helen Boswell

31. “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