A Quote by Jeff Lindsay

But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.

Jeff Lindsay

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Jeff Lindsay
American - Playwright
Born: July 14, 1952

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

Dean Koontz

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Alexandre Dumas

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.

Diogenes Laertius

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

Errol Flynn

But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.

Isaiah

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

Ambrose Bierce

No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.

James S.A. Corey

It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked.

Muriel Lester

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

Denis Diderot

... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent; which is an evil to a wicked man, while to the good it is rest and freedom from evils. 'For death is rest to a man whose way is hidden' (Job 3:23 LXX). And so a good man does not suffer any loss from it.

John Cassian

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

William Makepeace Thackeray

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

Jim Butcher

He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.