"The verie euill thoughts of the wicked," wrote Zachary Boyd in "Last Battell," his 1629 masterpiece, "in that day shalbe spread out and laide in broad-band before the face of God".
In 1959, in his witty autobiography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways," he wrote: "This, my own confusion, became my trademark.
In his autobiography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways," Flynn wrote that "youthful and virile roles" like cowboys and swordsmen "require gusto and genuine interest — such as I had felt at the time I was making 'Captain Blood' and 'Robin Hood.' " He's right: in these movies, his exuberance irradiates the screen.
(In his 1959 autobiography -- the aptly titled "My Wicked, Wicked Ways -- the actor wrote that he had his housekeeper break the news to the princess in a phone call).
Hull was wicked for writing music as it had this North Sea vibe that inspired loads of coastal tracks.
'Then there came over me a horrid, wicked feeling,' writes Dufferin of an Icelandic society banquet.
Drawing its two threads together, this remarkable book confronts the question: can a wicked person write good books?
Charles got in a lot of disputes: he could be quite wicked; he wrote a lot of hilarious letters about others' incompetence.
"When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil – not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked," he writes in The City of God.
While under the impression that Ruby had been killed off in "No Rest for the Wicked", Peterson wrote that the character "got gone just as [she was] getting interesting" and deemed her a "decent traveling [companion]".
